As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

A useless life is an early death.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

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

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Life is warfare.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

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

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Children make your life important.

I love life because what more is there?

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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