When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

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

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'