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

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

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

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

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

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.