This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

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

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Time stays, we go.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

A useless life is an early death.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.