Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.