There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.