You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.
People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'
I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.
I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
I live a very real life.
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.
I think I make people laugh, and that's good in life.
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.
Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
The lie is a condition of life.
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.