Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.
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.