That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

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

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

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

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

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

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

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

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

Life is anything but predictable.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

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

Passions are the gales of life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.