Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

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

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, ‚No. No, I’m finished. Bye.‘ And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Life is anything but predictable.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.