Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.