Time will explain.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It…tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done – then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.