When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be.

We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.