Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Life is a dead-end street.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

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

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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

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.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Never mistake motion for action.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.