Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

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

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Youth is wasted on the young.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

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.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

‚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.‘

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Life is anything but predictable.

It is natural to die as to be born.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘