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.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

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

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

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

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

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

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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

Life must be lived as play.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Life well spent is long.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Life is precious.