It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.

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