“We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.”
“When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madame Fortune to prove us wrong.”
“God's dreams for us is far better than our own. He desires that we be able to maximize every potential and every gift that He has given us.”
“Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.”
“We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.”
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”