All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

A better idea than my own is to listen.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.