Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Effective action is always unjust.

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

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

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

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Actor’s life is very long.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

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

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.