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.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Life is precious.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

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.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.