"This life is worth living, we can..." - Quote by William James

“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.”

“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”

“The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.”

“My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.”

“I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.”

“If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.”

“Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.”

“I certainly won't have an empty life!”

“I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!”