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

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!

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

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

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

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!