As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Life is wasted on the living.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The way to know life is to love many things.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.