"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