It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Actor’s life is very long.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

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

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

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

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.