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.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

To be somebody, you must last.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

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

The good that men do lives after them.