Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.
To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.
If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.
There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.
Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue. But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.
Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on Bible doctrines that we have never cared enough to become?
A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace