I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my life 365 days, moments from those days, it will reflect and it will have connection with lives of all of us.
My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.
We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.
If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first time. Facing those challenges of radiation, navigation and life support on a months-long trip millions of miles from home would be a perfect learning journey before a Mars trip.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
No, I had a back injury early on in my life.
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
You have to remember, I didn't want this life.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.