If the price is an issue, then realize that there is also a price to be paid for lack of commitment. If you fail to develop proper commitment, what will you forfeit? On the other hand, if you pay the price, what benefit will you gain?

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

Better to lose our lives than the purpose of our living.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.