Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.

Life is an invisible stampede

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

Complaining is another way of saying to others, YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.