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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A useless life is an early death.

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

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

The earth laughs in flowers.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

My life is my argument.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Life is wasted on the living.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

My life is a struggle.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.