Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.