So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
You can’t think thoughts of mediocrity and expect to excel. The two don’t go together.