Quotes on Life

Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

A useless life is an early death.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.