Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to Utopia.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, in wisdom.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.