For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

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

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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

Life well spent is long.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

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.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.