Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

It's what passes for wisdom$$$ being ironic and cynical.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident$$$ it has never been self-executing.

I wouldn't want to be a Russian leader. You'd never know when you were being taped.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

God$$$ grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change$$$ the courage to change the things I can$$$ and the wisdom to know the difference.

If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it$$$ then where you have been$$$ where you are$$$ and where you are going will all be one and the same.

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances$$$ to choose ones own way.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks$$$ hippies$$$ misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people$$$ regardless.