Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

The most you get is what you ask for.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Above all else, I would choose you. When there’s no more grand gestures, no more words to say, when everything around us begins to give way, when the sky grows dim and the colors fade, I will choose you.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!