Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

The world is held together by the mass of honest folk who do their daily tasks, tend their own spot in the world, and have faith that at last the Right will come fully into its own.

The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.