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

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

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

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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.

There is no wealth but life.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Life loves the liver of it.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

In every parting there is an image of death.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

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

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

An unused life is an early death.

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.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

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

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.