“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”

“The less routine the more life.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

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

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”