A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.