The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

So buxom, blithe, and debonair.

Mirth, admit me of thy crew, to live with her, and live with thee ,In unreproved pleasures free.

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Spiritual emotions, which are more than physical, can have chemical effects, and not just the reverse.

Recreation Is Essential to Best Work—The time spent in physical exercise is not lost.... A proportionate exercise of all the organs and faculties of the body is essential to the best work of each. When the brain is constantly taxed while the other organs of the living machinery are inactive, there is a loss of strength, physical and mental.

Health is a treasure. Of all temporal possessions it is the most precious.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy.