No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure