The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

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

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Life is warfare.

I love life because what more is there?

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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

Where there is love there is life.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

My life is a struggle.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Life is precious.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

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.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.