What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

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.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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

My life is my message.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

The honor of a nation is its life.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

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

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

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

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

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.