There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

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

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Life is warfare.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I love to watch times change!

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.