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

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.