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

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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.

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.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

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.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

To be awake is to be alive.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

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.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Life is a dead-end street.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

This is not a bad life.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

There is no wealth but life.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.