Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.'
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.