If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Every heart will obtain what it most prays for.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.