No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.