Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

My whole life is a theater piece.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Fun is good.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

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

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

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

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

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

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.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

I think that success is having fun.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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