The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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

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

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

My life is mine to remember.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

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

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

What a nice night for an evening.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

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

I love life because what more is there?

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.