Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Our lives teach us who we are.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.