I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I think I have always had a little humor.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

As you think, so shall you become.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

I need physics more than friends.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.