This is not a bad life.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

My life is a struggle.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.