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

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

Art is the proper task of life.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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.

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

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

There is no wealth but life.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

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.