Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.