“The harder the life the finer the type and there’s no doubt about that; the easier you make life the lower goes your standards.”

“Your life is a reflection of standards you set for yourself. Raise your standards so will your quality of life.”

“Keep working boys, but the sooner you forget about needing a paycheck, the easier your adult life will be.”

“I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.”

“If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.”

“There's an obvious attraction
To the path of least resistance in your life
Well there's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistence
Could make you try tonight

'Cause it's easy not to
So much easier not to
And what goes around never comes around to you
To you, to you, to you, to you, to you.”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you’re trying to say on stage… Success makes life easier. It doesn’t make living easier.”

“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”

“When beset with doubt in troubled times, and those about you will understand if you come unglued, stay the ground, and face the challenge. For when you stand alone to confront life's highest mountains, the next shall be easier to climb.”

“A young man’s ambition — to get along in the world and make a place for himself — half your life goes that way, till you’re 45 or 50. Then, if you’re lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”