I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.