Gabrielle Giffords

You cannot authentically live anyone's life but your own. That is the deal life offers us.

Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.

Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.