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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.