Life is not a dress rehearsal.
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.
I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.
I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.
I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
My life is pretty simple and normal.
Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
If you think about the amount of critical thinking that has come into the field of economics, two universities have dominated the landscape in my life: Chicago and Harvard.
When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
Everything in life is luck.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.