Quotes on Life

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.