The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.