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

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

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

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Time stays, we go.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

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.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.