Anthony Pagano

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.