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.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

Our life is made by the death of others.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

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.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

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

There is no wealth but life.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.