The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Loudness is impotence. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.