There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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

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

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.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The way to know life is to love many things.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

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.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

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?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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