It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

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.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

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.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I love life because what more is there?

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

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.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

My life is mine to remember.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Where there is love there is life.

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

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

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

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

An unused life is an early death.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.