"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

"It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds."

"It is best to live however one can be."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."

"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."

"It is important to me to instill in [kids] a sense of compassion and respect for others."

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."

"Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again."

"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals"

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."