All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.