I did it by myself, but I didn't do it alone.

And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech.

... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

The problem with our generation is not their tendency to give up so easily but their inability to recognize the value of what they are giving up.

No land too small to lose, no man too big to fall.