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.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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.