The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.