I had a great childhood. I had such fun.
Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
Don’t you have a girlfriend or family you’d rather be with? (Geary) Only Solin, and honestly, he’s not this soft. Even if he was, it’d be gross. (Arik)
Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.
Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.