A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

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

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

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.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.