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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Life must be lived as play.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

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.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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