“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.”

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”

“Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”

“It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.”

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”

“I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.”

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

“What we play is life.”

“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”