It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

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

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

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.

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.