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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

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

Where there is love there is life.

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

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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.