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.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Life must be lived as play.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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

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

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.