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- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. — Albert Camus
- All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. — Grace Paley
- Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. — Grace Paley
- I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley