Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

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

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I want to show audiences I can act.

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.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of 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.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.