Lin Yutang

"'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. "

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. "

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. "

"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. "

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought. "