Life is precious.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

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

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

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.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

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

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

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

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

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

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

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

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.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.