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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

Delivered: October 5, 2024

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

Delivered: October 4, 2024

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

Delivered: October 3, 2024

"I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone."

Leslie Jordan

Delivered: October 2, 2024

"I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."

Kanye West

Delivered: October 1, 2024

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

Delivered: September 30, 2024

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Maya Angelou

Delivered: September 29, 2024

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

Mark Twain

Delivered: September 28, 2024

"The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character."

Lucy Larcom

Delivered: September 27, 2024

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anais Nin

Delivered: September 26, 2024

"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."

e. e. cummings

Delivered: September 25, 2024

"One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening."

Jocko Willink

Delivered: September 24, 2024

"Everybody needs somebody."

Mahalia Jackson

Delivered: September 23, 2024

"I dare not stay home while Quichuas perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures, Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers."

Jim Elliot

Delivered: September 22, 2024

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

Washington Irving

Delivered: September 21, 2024

"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."

Erma Bombeck

Delivered: September 20, 2024

"Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals."

Jason Reynolds

Delivered: September 19, 2024

"I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right."

Virgil Abloh

Delivered: September 18, 2024

"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Sylvia Plath

Delivered: September 17, 2024

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

Norman Vincent Peale

Delivered: September 16, 2024

"Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me."

Al Yankovic

Delivered: September 15, 2024

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

Ansel Adams

Delivered: September 14, 2024

"Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest."

Robert Downey, Jr.

Delivered: September 13, 2024

"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!"

Christopher McCandless

Delivered: September 12, 2024

"There's always gonna be setbacks; there's always gonna be knockdowns. There's always gonna be people telling you, 'Hey, you suck!'"

Post Malone

Delivered: September 11, 2024