Some of the best quotes to live by all come from this man.

• Solitude is impractical, and yet society is fatal.
• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
• Every artist was first an amateur.
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.
• Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
• Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
• We must be our own before we can be another's.
• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
• We are wiser than we know.
• What you are comes to you.
• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
• To be great is to be misunderstood.
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.