Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

It is important to remember yourself.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.