"A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it."

-- Bob Kerrey

#Perseverance Quotes #Hero Quotes #Doe Quotes

“So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.”
“The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.”
“My soul is in the sky.”
“I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.”

Source : "NY Startup Guy Marco Arment Has Had 3 Companies Sell In The Past 5 Weeks" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. June 3, 2013.
“Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.”
“Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. Itâ€™s despair â€” just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

Source : "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.
“I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.”
“Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.”

Source : Edwin Scott Gaustad (1993). “Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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