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?

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.