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

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Time stays, we go.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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

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.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

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.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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

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

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.