Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your read more

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in read more

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.