I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.