To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Brief and powerless is Man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
