Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.