Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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.

They say miracles are past.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

An unused life is an early death.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Life is a song to me.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

To be awake is to be alive.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

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.