It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

If there's something in the kitchen I like, it must be eaten. I try not to leave any snacks I wouldn't want to eat on a daily basis in the cupboard.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.