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

As soon as there is life there is danger.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves or lose our ventures.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life devoid of breadth.