Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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.'
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.