Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

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.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

I wish we had all been born birds instead.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.