“Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.”
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“Happiness is the reward life bestows us when we are rightly employed. You don’t become happy by being idle. You got to be doing something valuable with your life.”
“Nobody knows what it is like to be you, how can they? Choose your thoughts, words and actions and enjoy what is your life.”
Source: You Working With You: A Roadmap to Self Mastery
“Years ago, a member of Congress slipped a laminated quote into my hand that he must have thought I would find meaningful. I paid little attention at first and unfortunately I don’t recall just who gave me the quote. I placed it next to my voting card and have carried it ever since. The quote came from Elie Wiesel’s book One Generation After. The quote was entitled “Why I Protest.”
Author Elie Wiesel tells the story of the one righteous man of Sodom, who walked the streets protesting against the injustice of this city. People made fun of him, derided him. Finally, a young person asked: “Why do you continue your protest against evil; can’t you see no one is paying attention to you?” He answered, “I’ll tell you why I continue. In the beginning, I thought I would change people. Today, I know I cannot. Yet, if I continue my protest, at least I will prevent others from changing me.”
I’m not that pessimistic that we can’t change people’s beliefs or that people will not respond to the message of liberty and peace. But we must always be on guard not to let others change us once we gain the confidence that we are on the right track in the search for truth.”
Source: Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
“wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Ranmaru: I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Everything... Is my fault.
Goda: Is it your fault... the Earth is round and the sky is blue... and my hair is wavy?”
Source: Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 1
“What you saw is what I showed you. What you are seeing is what I'm showing you. What you are going to see, you can't even imagine the future me.”
“Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
“Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain’t trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain’t waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.”
Source: Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man