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

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

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

This is not a bad life.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

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

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

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

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

My life has been very full.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Life is short, the art long.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

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