If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

If I had my life to live over, I'd have fewer meetings and more rendezvous.