We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Life is precious.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

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?

Time stays, we go.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

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.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

Our life is made by the death of others.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

What is past is prologue.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

What we live by we die by.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

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.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

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

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

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

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

For time is the longest distance between two places.