Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

An unused life is an early death.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.