Few of us get anything without working for it.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.