Our children change us... whether they live or not.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.