There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

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.

Everybody has idiots at their job, and those idiots are talked about when they leave the room. House just calls them idiots before they leave the room. But it's not about what House says; it's about what he does. He's heroic, but he doesn't care what people think. And those blue eyes don't hurt.

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

Stand like a beaten anvil.
It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.

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.