While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

I’m not perfect.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I’ve learned never to say never.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

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.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

There are no second acts in American lives.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

We boil at different degrees.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Life is a dead-end street.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.