But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create...

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

You can't go backward in life.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Life is a dead-end street.

Life is a song to me.