There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.
Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.
Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations
Critics are already made.
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread
Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.