Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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

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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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 all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Passions are the gales of life.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

My music is a luxury.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

A useless life is an early death.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Art is the proper task of life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

There is nothing permanent except change.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.