True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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 important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.