“I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.”

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.

Though life will always change let your light remain the same.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place.

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.