Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ”

I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them into my movies. I would love to live in a society where 'My Dinner with Andre' made $100,000,000. Then I would be in the mainstream. I could do that stuff easier than I could do 'Meatballs.' ”

I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?' ”

The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority. ”

The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody. ”

I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole. ”

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. ”

Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances. ”

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct. ”