What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.