life

"If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."

"Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

"If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches."

"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."

"We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl."

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."(George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

"I'm here at The Container Store looking for something large enough to hold all my love for her. It's a flood, so I hope they sell Shipping Container Ships."

"In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'"

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"True life lies in laughter, love and work."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

"Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure."

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"