life

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC"

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."

"I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career."

"Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. "Life isn't about the past and the future. It's about today."He paused. "It's about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It's moments, you know? Not years. Years aren't what define us."

"It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell."

"We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations."

"I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."

"...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

"Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers."

"Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"Logos on designer clothes don't make me feel like I've got a strong personal brand. No clothes make the man. Even wearing no clothes I'm still me."

"Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all."

"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."