For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.