If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

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

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it’s a long, long way from England. Which is why, when we bought Necker Island, we made it like a mini Bali.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

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.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I make good music for long journeys.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

This is not a bad life.

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.

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

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

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

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

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.

In every parting there is an image of death.