I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

When in doubt tell the truth.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Live truth instead of professing it.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Life is warfare.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

My life is my argument.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.