The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. – William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong