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.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Children make your life important.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

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.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

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.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

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

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

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

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

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.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

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

My life has been very full.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

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

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

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.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

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.