Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

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

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Life is wasted on the living.

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.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

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

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

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

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

What we live by we die by.

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

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.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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

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

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

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.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

An unused life is an early death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.