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

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

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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

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.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

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.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Children make your life important.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It is natural to die as to be born.