The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

If only I can realize how ephemeral my life is, then I will never be able to hurt anyone.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

I don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work