Love the life you live. Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it. Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. Both ways save us from thinking. We are the people our parents warned us about.