"The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work."
"What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal."
"Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn."
"Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound."
"Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord."
"Make space in your life, space for health and happiness."
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
"I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it."
"The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist."
"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."
"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way."
"The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
"Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with."
"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
