The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.