Instead of saying they rose all the way to the top, we should say they learned all the way to the top.

There is the pain that made me cry, and then there is the strength that made me stop crying.So I am glad the pain camebecause without it I would not have discovered my strength.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.

Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

Even if you do not want to, One day you will look back through your life...the Question is, what are you going to see? How will your rate and direction of progress make you feel?

Only victory should tell you that you have failed long enough.

The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept Remembering thee.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

Getting to the heart of things, is never easy

Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.