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

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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?

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Change alone is unchanging.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

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.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

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.

Actor’s life is very long.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.