Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

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

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

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

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

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

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

What we live by we die by.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

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

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

We live in ugly times.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.