I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

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.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

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

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

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.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

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

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.