Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.
It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.