After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

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.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

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

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I love Manchester. Everyone knows that – I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

The honor of a nation is its life.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

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

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.