I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

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

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

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

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.