It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

The door to happiness opens outward.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Sleeping is the height of genius

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.