Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken as well as those outside.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.