"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."

"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."

"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."

"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."

"Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored."

"Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark..."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard."

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering"

"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."

"Nor bring to see me cease to live,/ Some doctor full of phrase and fame,/ To shake his sapient head, and give/ The ill he cannot cure a name."

"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."

"It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done."

"Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."

"Live your life and forget your age."

"Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."