Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.
We cannot all be masters.
Life is a perilous voyage.
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant...
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.
Never expect anything without being prepared to give.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
There is no such thing as something for nothing.
We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.