You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
I prefer fact to fiction.
I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.
JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.