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.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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

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

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.