I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Life loves the liver of it.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

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.

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

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

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.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

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

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

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.

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

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

My life is my argument.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

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.

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

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.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

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

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

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

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?