Quotes About Life

I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.

As with any mother, all I wish is for my boys to have the peaceful family life they deserve.

I can die peacefully now as both my babies have their own babies.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I tend to make movies about my peer group. I couldn't see myself now going back and making a movie about a bunch of college kids, necessarily. I kind of always operate in the things I'm observing around me, whether it's friends having babies now in my life or what have you.

The people I respect the most are my peers, my fellow comedians. I want their respect. It's my whole life.

Believing in the sanctity of life also shouldn't expose anyone to discrimination or penalties for declining to support abortion.

Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

My mother's a very spiritual woman, and I think Pentecostal religion, Bible religion, was very important to her because it gave her a context for a very spiritual approach to life.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.

People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.