Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

The greatest quest in life is to reach one’s potential.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote [...]

They say there are two important days in a your life: the day you were born, and the day you find out why you were born.

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else…means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.