Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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?
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.