Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.