Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.