Most people are stronger than they know. They just forget to believe in it sometimes.
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
When people are protecting something truly precious to them. They truly can become…as strong as they need to be!
The scariest thing was I thought he was stronger than all of us. Maybe it's not about being the best. Maybe it's about finding little things that get you through the day. Whether it's the support of someone close to you, or letting yourself feel overwhelmed, if only for a moment. Or being selfless every once in a while. I don't know. I guess in the end, it's about surviving, any way you can.
And, you know, he has reason to trust her. Not because they got married and she’s his wife. But she bore him four children in times when it was not that safe to bear children. She nursed and guarded him when people shot him. She believed in him. He was always her first loyalty for forty years. After you do that maybe tell you a few things you really don’t want to hear.’