Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.