Quotes on Life

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force._x000D_ _x000D_ My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay._x000D_ _x000D_ I will greet this day with love in my heart.

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.

Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.