Get busy living, or get busy dying.
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Life is about timing.
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.
I made a really good start to my career, and there was a lot of speculation about where I'd end up going. Like I did then, I'm just trying to take this all in my stride and keep my feet on the ground.
If I hadn't gone towards boxing, I might have been one of those kids getting into trouble. A lot of my friends did. They were clever kids at school, but they just went down the wrong path.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
That's what I tell all the kids who come to my summer camps: 'You'll get a shot; it's about what you do with it.'
The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.
The future is purchased by the present.
You can't be a professional rejector of opportunities.
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
