I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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

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.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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

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.

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.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.