Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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

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

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.