Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

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

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

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

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Little things affect little minds.

A useless life is an early death.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

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.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Every wall is a door.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.