The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.