The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

At times in my life, the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.