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

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

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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!

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

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

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