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

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

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

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

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

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.