“Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.”

Bernard Shaw

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

Success is the result of good judgment, which is the result of experience, which is often the result of bad judgment.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”