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

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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.‘

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

This is not a bad life.

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

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Genius, when young, is divine.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

A useless life is an early death.

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

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

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.

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

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

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

My life is my message.

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.

My life has been very full.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

My life is my argument.