I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.