Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.

The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance.

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Every dream has a process and a price tag. Those who embrace the process and pay the price, live the dream. Those who don't, just dream.

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man