I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.
Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption.
If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.