I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

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 always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

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.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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?

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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

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

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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.