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.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Life itself is the proper binge.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The less routine the more life.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.