Quotes

My brother Peter was always the life of the party, and so the running joke for the first 12 years of my life was he was Pete, and I was 'Re-Pete.'

People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful.

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.

The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.

In this life, I've learned to be patient. And I'm still learning... Even now, I wish things would go quicker.

I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.