Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.

Michael K. Williams

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done.

José Saramago

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

John Muir

I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?

Andrea Thompson

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Rand Paul

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Ina

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Brad Delson

Read the best books first, or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau