I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

The good that men do lives after them.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.