Life is a dead-end street.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

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

Life is just one damned thing after another.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

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

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I have wondered about time all my life.

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.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Time stays, we go.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

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

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.