The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

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

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.