We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in read more

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand read more

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.