At my core, I know this: God is God. All that lives and breathes flows from him in both original and ongoing states.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will...

Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast,...

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a...

Lata Mangeshkar is a living legend. She has enthralled millions of hearts all over the world with her music.

It doesn’t matter about the past. It only matters about the present, because we’re living for today, and today is all we’ve got. So we journey into Veterans for the last game. We’re going to...

I love living in Brooklyn. Originally I moved there because I could enjoy a bigger space for less money than I would ever get in Manhattan.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover–and practice–the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I...

The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do

Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about....

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale.

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard.

Dying is as natural as being born, and all of us have to face it someday. Some sooner than others. It’s difficult to understand the meaning of it all. The question isn’t, ‘Why do we...

To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or...

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

Pull yourself together. People among the living still need your help, and I haven’t given you permission to quit.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I’d die.

Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is...

It’s okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

…I have decided that I shan’t sweat the small stuff. Sense and sensibility will, I assume, come in their own time. If indeed they ought to come. And in the meantime, I shall continue to...

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such...

I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades....

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is...

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can’t get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the...

Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don’t lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not...

Never had anyone said, “Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like...

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to...

Great goals are never scored by not kicking the ball

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

What is the one thing that gets you up every morning? The one thing that keeps you going every day, every month, every year? Let me get you started. My one thing is this, ‘I’m...

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: ‘They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!’ We humans forget how alike we are, living in a...

Are you doing life or are you living?

A person who is making ends meet is merely living in an acceptable level of poverty.

She finds herself in New York City and she is making a living posing for photographs. A lot of it was her not really crossing the line and looking at what people were doing with...

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

All death matters.””Only to the living.

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall – that when the play is finished, it’s done – but now I realise it’s...