What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.