When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!

Own your own dreams

A strange thing has happened as I've aged

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

You don't have to get in or out of a position all at once. Avoid the temptation of wanting to be completely right.