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

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.

Life must be lived as play.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.