Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.