Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

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

My proudest moment of my career was opening night in Cambridge and watching the cast take their curtain call. No one was looking at me, and I was floating off the ground. It was just euphoric.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.