If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell. – Lance Armstrong
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. – Marcel Proust
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. – Charles Sanders Peirce
I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control peoples opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did. – Leonardo DiCaprio
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. – Rutherford B. Hayes
