We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.