People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

When you work; don't expect your talent to be discovered. Work hard because it makes you happy.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

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