Quotes on Life

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.