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.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Touring is hard on the body.

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?

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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 is a dead-end street.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.