To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Life is but thought.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.