Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
life, important, except, impact, lives
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
predictable, life, without flavor