If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. read more

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

You live and you learn -- or you don't live long.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches read more

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.rn

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth read more

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.