The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
To try to be better is to be better.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.