The important things are the hardest things to say.  They are things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them – words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.  But it’s more than that, isn’t it?  The most important things lie close to where your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away.  And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought I was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.  That’s the worst, I think.  When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.    ~Stephen King

Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.    ~Mark Twain

Don’t look back, something might be gaining on you.    ~Satchel Paige

It’s like wrestling a gorilla…you don’t quit when you are tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.    ~Robert Strauss

Winning isn’t everything, wanting to is.     ~Anonymous

The greatest thing in life is not in never having fallen: it is rising up again to meet the challenge.

Even a mosquito doesn’t get a slap on the back until it starts its work.

I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn’t hear the referee.

I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.  I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

I don't mean to act a little nervous around you, I'm just a little nervous about my heart, cause it's been a while since I felt this feeling that everything you do gives me.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.  ~Goethe

A teacher affects eternity;  he can never tell, where his influence stops.  ~Henry B. Adams

Tell your darkest secrets unknown to me, I will not be moved, don't try to find the answer, when there ain't no question here, or let your heart be wounded and give no mercy to your fear.  ~Ed Kowalczyk

Sometimes the heart sees what the eyes don't.

I'd take my heart out of my body before I would take you out of my heart.