I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.
If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.
Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.
The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
It's an important fact of life, war.
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.
In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.
Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.
I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
