"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
"I need drama in my life to keep making music."
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
"God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life."
"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."
"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."
"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
"I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life."
"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live."
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
"Into each life some rain must fall."
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
"Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now."
"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."
"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him."
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."
"There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things."
"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."
"I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready."
"To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on."
"So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on."
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"
"The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled."
"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."
"Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise."
