In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
He who laughs, lasts!
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.