Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles for living.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.