It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time.

Aeschylus

Death is an absolute marvel.

William Shatner

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Tony Robbins

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Lucius Accius

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Marshall McLuhan

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'Amato

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Margaret Cho

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

John Buchanan Robinson

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Aristotle

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Benjamin Franklin