Quotes

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one season. But the worst trick time plays on you is just how slowly the worst times in your life take you to live through.

As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.

You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.

In the life of any country, the most defining moment is the creation of the country itself.

My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.

'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.

There were offers from a few Bollywood filmmakers, but I was sceptical as to whether those films will do justice to my vision or even my life. I was also apprehensive because what if I sign an agreement and give the rights to some filmmaker, and he shelves the project?