It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Men and women who possesses drive record more increase than those who are passive

By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

I was a weekend drinker...I'd start on Saturday, end on Friday...thought I was controlling it...but I don't drink any more.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God's will.