Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.