The good die young because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
And finally I twist my heart round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be and could be if there weren't any other people living in the world.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
As surely as I am the living God everyone will kneel before me and everyone will confess that I am God.
Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute every breath is a gift from God.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will in the end take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
Frontiersmen good and bad gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future have been my camp companions. Thus I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
The past is not dead it is living in us and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
To me living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Of present fame think little and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living but they are nothing to the dead.
Most people are prisoners thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present and the present is where everything begins.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters today it is 4 000 meters.