Quotes on Life

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Every time I see my life without basketball, I get a little scared, and I try to put a little more into it.

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.