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

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

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

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

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

When in doubt tell the truth.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

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.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Finality is not the language of politics.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.