“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”

“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.”

“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.”

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”

“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”