My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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

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 be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

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

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.