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“There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.”
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“Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.”
Source : "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.
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“We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.”
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“We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?' Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.”
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“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”
Source : "Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012. 
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“This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own spiritual yearnings in the biggest possible context, in such a way that is going to compel us to finally transcend our self-concern. We need to find the heart to come together in such a way that will enable us to face the challenges before us. And to do this, we need a new spirituality. We need a new enlightenment.”
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“The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.”
Source : Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.30
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“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.”
