“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend ”
“Unhappy failures need not apply.”
“The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.”
“A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.”
“Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.”