"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly"

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"