I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

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

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Children make your life important.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

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

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

My life is my message.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

I bear a charmed life.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

An unused life is an early death.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.