The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.
Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom--for himself.
I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.