(Henry David Thoreau)
Intensity of purpose and commitment to a single goal or objective builds yourself-confidence
(Anonymous)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
(Abraham Lincoln)
The wonderful thing about the future, it shall arrive with or without us!
(Anonymous)
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
(Andre Malraux, Man's Hope)
Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.
(Joe Biden)
Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrection Aries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
(Rebecca Solnit)