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

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

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

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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

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

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Life is short, the art long.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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

Sin is geographical.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Life is anything but predictable.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.