“God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.”

“Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile.”

“He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.”

“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.”

“Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.”

“Continuously failing does not make you a failure. It only means that your strength is in exploring your weaknesses.”

“I have fallen, fallen into the arms of lost hope. I’m lost, unsure whether to stay where I am or stand up and risk falling so painfully again. Maybe if I stay here the pain of my dreams ripping from my soul will fade. Maybe I can learn to enjoy seeing my aspirations, the beauty shining brightly, fade into the distance. I don’t think I can learn to love this stagnant water of doubt in which I’ve fallen. I have to stand up. I have to take a step towards my glowing dreams. Fear will cling to my ankles, attempting to pull me back down, its ropes of anxiety wrapping tightly into me. I may even trip, giving fear a minor victory, but I will stand again. I will keep getting up, over and over again, until my legs grow strong, my mind becomes resilient, and my fear weakens. Let fear fight me, I know I am strong enough to overcome anything it throws my way.”

“Continuously failing does not mean that you are a failure. It only means that your strength is in exploring your weaknesses.”

“You won’t,” says the Mayor, smiling again. “Everyone knows you aren’t a killer, Todd.”He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I think -Viola -I grit my teeth and raise the rifle -I cock it -And I say what’s true -“I would kill to save her,” I say.”

“Every shining jewel comes from a crushing it never knew it could survive. There’s good waiting for you.”

“We are survivors. We shall survive again and we shall be the strongest, most gentle people on this earth.”

“However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

“On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the fact that their hard-driving dean had contracted tuberculosis while serving as a GI in France in Word War I. Houstan always seemed vibrant and impassioned in the chase for justice as he tried to expose his students to everything relating to the law that might give them an advantage.. . .”I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston,” Marshal told me. “I saw this man’s dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, ‘You either shape up or ship out.’ When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can’t ship out.”So Houston rescued Marshall and launched him into a career as one of the greatest lawyers in American history.”