This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

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

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

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.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Everything in life is luck.

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

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.