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

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

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

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.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. read more

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to read more

Don't attach yourself too much to anything that needs to go.Everything in this world is not permanent..You just have to love it while you have it...