For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work patience love self-sacrifice - no paper currency no promises to pay but the gold of real service.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Regarding life the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

This life is worth living we can say since it is what we make it.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.