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

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

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.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Art is the proper task of life.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

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.

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.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

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

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

My life has been very full.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

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

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

My life is my argument.