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

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

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

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

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

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.