The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
We don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.