A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Determined people working together can do anything.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.