The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
The road to success is not a path you find, but a trail you blaze.
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.