A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

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

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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