It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.