The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain 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?

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Death is a fearful thing.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

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.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

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

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

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.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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