Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

Life is precious.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Life is short, the art long.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Actor’s life is very long.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

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.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.