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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

The way to know life is to love many things.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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.

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

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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

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.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

There is no wealth but life.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

An unused life is an early death.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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.

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.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

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

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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

You may delay, but time will not.

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