When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.
I live a pretty domestic and normal life. I make my kids breakfast most mornings, but nothing too elaborate - soft-boiled eggs and oatmeal.
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously.
Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we'...
You don't want to return to the life you had before Stanford, and you don’t know if you can remain in this life any longer, but fear should never be the reason why you change. If you're only here because you're afraid of the old way of life, you'll...
God, in the dream, illumined the animal's brutishness and he understood the reasons, and accepted his destiny; but when he awoke there was only a dark resignation, a valiant ignorance, for the machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplic...
It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idol...
We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for greater...
It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed hi...
Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it's not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure. It's about your desire to flatten your l...
Sometimes we carry unhappy feelings about past hurts too long. We spend too much energy dwelling on things that have passed and cannot be changed. We struggle to close the door and let go of the hurt. If, after time, we can forgive whatever may have ...
It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.
