“I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.”

“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.”

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”

“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.”

“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

“The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.”

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

“The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it—that idea is incompatible with making art.”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.”