We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.
I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.
The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
I want to be remembered as somebody working hard, walking straight in life, most of the time, and just being a down-to-earth person, being loyal and being indestructible.
There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.
I'm not a photojournalist.
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.