Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

This is not a bad life.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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.

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

In every parting there is an image of death.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

To be awake is to be alive.

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

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.