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

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

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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.‘

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

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

The art is long, life is short.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

There is no wealth but life.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

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

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

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.

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

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.