The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.
On doing what you want to do.
No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.
Indecision is fatal. It is better to make a wrong decision than build up a habit of indecision. If you're wallowing in indecision, you certainty can't act - and action is the basis of success
Begin doing what you want to do now.
My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.
In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.