If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.