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.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

My life is mine to remember.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

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

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

It is natural to die as to be born.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

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

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.