The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.