I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.