Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

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

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

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

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I’m more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.