No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.