You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.

What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.