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.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

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

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I live in a crazy time.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Actor’s life is very long.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Life loves the liver of it.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Life is precious.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

A useless life is an early death.

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.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

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.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

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

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.