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.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

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.

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

My life is real.

In every parting there is an image of death.

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.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

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.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Life loves the liver of it.

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

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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

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

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.