Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.