My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Passions are the gales of life.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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 more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Hell is other people.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

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.

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.

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.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.