To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love read more

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.