Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

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?

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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

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.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

In every parting there is an image of death.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

The threat to the planet is us. It’s actually not a threat to the planet – it’s a threat to us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

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.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

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

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.