As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.