Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

I live in a crazy time.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

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.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

My life has been very full.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

An unused life is an early death.

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

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

Life is a dead-end street.