No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

I was a Political Science major.

In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.