a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.