All objects all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

By having a reverence for life we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good deep and alive.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good and we must hunger after them.

Every day is a good day to be alive whether the sun's shining or not.

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.

There are two great forces God's force of good and the devil's force of evil and I believe Satan is alive and he is working and he is working harder than ever and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

If you want a future of shared prosperity where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining where the American Dream is alive and well and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world you should vote for Barack Obama.

The past is not dead it is living in us and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets in the daily work of the communications media in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive Malcolm X was alive great great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.