Optimism is an intellectual choice.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Nature has always had more force than education.
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well, I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.
Liberty is always unfinished business.
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.
While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.
Coercive power is the curse of the universe; coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.