I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.