The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Our lives teach us who we are.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.