When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

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.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

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.