Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
The good life is one that's artistically made.
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
I've seen too much in life to give up.
I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.