Against the flying ball no valor avails.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine.

Sometimes you just get a feeling about someone and that feeling is worth more than all of the little things put together.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

We are creatures of story.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?