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

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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.

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.

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

Life must be lived as play.

Where there is love there is life.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

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