You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler. ’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods. ’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours. ’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.