If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good read more

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you read more

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.

As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt read more

As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and
that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we read more

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.