The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
