"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible."

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."