What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?