Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less and so they don't hire.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly all at once, before a word has been spoken.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

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