Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
He who can be a good son will be a good father.
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death.