What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

What a glorious thing is life, surrounded by the beauties of the world in which we live.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

Your task is not to judge or punish. Karma will take care of that. Your task is to love.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

The secret to living the life of your dreams is to START living the life of your dreams.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Don't spend money on things... spend money on experiences. You'll enjoy life a lot more!

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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