Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The art is long, life is short.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

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.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Life is our dictionary.

My wife is already in Heaven.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Life must be lived as play.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Change alone is unchanging.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

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?

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Heaven means to be one with God.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.