We are not interested in defeat.

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.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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

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

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

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

Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.

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.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

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.

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.