Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

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

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

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

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

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.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

We live in a bewildering world.

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Life is our dictionary.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Art is the proper task of life.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?