Quotes on Life

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.