Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

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?