The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do. (James M. Barrie)
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. (Robert Benchley)
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men. (Plato)
I can resist anything but temptation. (Oscar Wilde)
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. (David Sedaris)
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. (Quintus Septimius Tertullianus)
Anger is a bad counselor. (French Proverb)
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. (Aesop)
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. (Plutarch)
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully. (Frances Moore Lappe)