"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."
"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."