Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.
I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.
I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.
A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.
Everything I loved became everything I've lost.
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
I have to chose my words carefully.