Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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?
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.