Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

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.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Life is a dead-end street.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

This is not a bad life.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Life is warfare.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.