When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.