You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for
education is not education at all but ritual. read more

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for
education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are
being educated when we know it least.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
hold of ourselves with the appalling things that read more

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about
us.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and
forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark read more

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and
forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of
death.