It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

I can't believe there's a part of you that grows when you need it. You're like a mutant.""I'm a vampire, " Baz says, "and can you hear yourself?

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.