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.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

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.

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] read more

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.

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.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.