Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Be a spot on the ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, from the Absolute.

Cunning men deal in generalizations.

But if We have such another victory, we are undone.