Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

We live in a bewildering world.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

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.

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.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

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

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

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people – for a long time, anyway – are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

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

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Children make your life important.

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

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

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

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

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.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

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

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.