It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

Dan Millman

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off

Sylvia Plath

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

Dorothy Day, On Pilgrimage

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Logic

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

I constantly look up words and meanings in search of the perfect variable, method, and class names.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Anna Deavere Smith

Painting completed my life.

Frida Kahlo

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe