Quotes on Life

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley's drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about in my life at that time generally, as a single mother.