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

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Death is a fearful thing.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

In every parting there is an image of death.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

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

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Life is anything but predictable.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.