Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Life loves the liver of it.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

This lady is not for turning.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

To be awake is to be alive.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.