Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Where there is love there is life.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.