There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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.