Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. (Frank Herbert)
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. (Montaigne)
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. (Nietzsche) lol
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Jong)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. (Sanders Law)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. (Byrnes)
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. (Dawkins)