When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.