I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.