Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Where thou art, that is home.

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.