It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

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.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.