Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

The path is revealed in the treading.

Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

When you give without expectations, your soul dances and sparkles with deep inner joy.

I declareThat later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.