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.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

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.

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

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

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.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

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

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Death is a fearful thing.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Art is the proper task of life.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

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

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.