We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...