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 have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Life is too short to work so hard.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.