You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.