When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Life was meant to be lived.

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.