My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another is it is not done.
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.