We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

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

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

A useless life is an early death.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

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

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

This is not a bad life.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Money ain’t everything.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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

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

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

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

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

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Action expresses priorities.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Life is warfare.

Life well spent is long.

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.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

My life is a struggle.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.