Leo Rosten (1908-1997)
Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was born in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.[1]
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Life
¶ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Rosten