Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.