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.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Change alone is unchanging.

I love life because what more is there?

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

It is natural to die as to be born.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Life is wasted on the living.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.