Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

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

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

To be awake is to be alive.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Passions are the gales of life.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

We must use time creatively.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Every day is a major balancing act that I have to figure out and coordinate.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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.