Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

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

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.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Change alone is unchanging.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Nothing in life is promised except death.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

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.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

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

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Everything isn’t political.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.