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.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

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

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

In the real world, children love me.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Hatred is settled anger.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

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