Never miss a party if you can make it!
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.