It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.