I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow. . . but I'm still growing!
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself like a gymnast in the dark. . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
I'm not against gay people. . . I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God. I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.