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

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.