To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Lauren Oliver

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Mark Twain

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so

Thomas Carlyle

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.

Roger Stark

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Shawn Johnson

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Voltaire

A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

John K. Hutchens

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson