Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
The best things in life are usually difficult.
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.