“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”– Antoine de Saint-Exupery Related Quotes “This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”– William James “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”– Thomas Jefferson “One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.”– Erma Bombeck