This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Life is a song to me.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Life is short, the art long.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

To be awake is to be alive.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Every loss of life is terrible.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.