We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.
Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
The best teacher in life is experience.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.