I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Life is anything but predictable.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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

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.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.