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

While there’s life, there’s hope.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

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

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

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

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

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

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Where there is love there is life.

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

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

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.

Lost time is never found again.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.