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.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Our life is made by the death of others.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

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

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

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

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

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

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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