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

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

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.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

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.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

An unused life is an early death.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

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

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

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

Passions are the gales of life.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.