Echoes

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

My life is my message.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.