Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more

Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And read more

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.