"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change."

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart."

"All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers."