To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.