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.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

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?

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

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

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.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

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

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

How young can you die of old age?

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.