“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.”

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”

“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

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

“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.”

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“There is no wealth but life.”