A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

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

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

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

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.