I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.