Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

Albert Camus

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Pierre Corneille

Practice is the best master.

Proverb

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Russell Hoban

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clifford Geertz

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Soren Kierkegaard

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Jean M. Auel

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

James Taylor

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

George Orwell

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare