There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

I serve.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

All great things arise from small beginnings.

-- The Turco-Mongol conqueror who built an empire fro

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

-- Rumi

You cannot receive benefit from others without exposing your weaknesses. You cannot give benefit to others without exposing your weaknesses.

-- Natsume Soseki

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

-- Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922, Emil Zatopek