Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

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.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

This is not a bad life.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

Life loves the liver of it.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

In every parting there is an image of death.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

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.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I love life because what more is there?

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

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.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.