As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.