I worked because I could control it.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

It's the thinking that gets you killed.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Kids chase the love that eludes them.