David Gant

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― Pythagoras, The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...

“...temptation, that in itself it is nothing but an opportunity for choice; so it is rather defeatist to feel very guilty about it, as though one were half ready to commit the sin.”
― Mary Renault, The Charioteer

“I can’t imagine how you did it,’ she cried.
‘I didn’t have no time to imagine. It’s what folks imagines that gen’rally ruins ‘em. It’s like maggots in the brain. My hands and feet had to keep movin’ so fast that my head didn’t have no chance to contradict ‘em.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind

“Ability and necessity dwell near each other.”
― Pythagoras