No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

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.

When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.

Alcohol initially makes man strong after a brief time, then makes a man ‘weak’ after a ‘week, ’ after a ‘month’ - it affects his ‘health’ and after a ‘year, ’ his life ends with ‘tear.

Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.

Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

I was born in a Negro town.