“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” 

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” 

Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.

Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. 

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.