Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.