The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.
We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?