The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

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.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

My life is mine to remember.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

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

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

A feeble body weakens the mind.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.