'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must poss ...

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.