We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
You can't eat compliments.
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!
In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.
What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?