Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too... And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"
You need to be sure of the question you are asking. Sometimes, people think they are looking for the meaning of life, when really they are looking for an understanding of why they are here. What their purpose is, the purpose of life in general. And that's a much easier question to answer than the meaning of life.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
We live, as we dream - alone.
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
...for anyone with any sense, a small number of intelligent people are more alarming than a crowd of unintelligent ones.