Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. - Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Weekdays revolved on a sameness wheel. They turned into themselves so steadily and inevitably that each seemed to be the original of yesterday's rough draft. Saturday, however, always broke the mold and dared to be different.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.