My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

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.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

My life is my message.

My life has been very full.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

The art is long, life is short.

A useless life is an early death.

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Life is our dictionary.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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.

There is no wealth but life.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

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.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.