The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The first wealth is health.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

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.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.