The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Life is but thought.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.