This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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.‘

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.