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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.