Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - read more

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my read more

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell read more

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if read more

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.

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

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