In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Jamin knew that by morning, when he was done paying the girl in exchange for her slipping out without causing a fuss, he would be flat broke. But that did not matter. It was money well spent.

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.