God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.