"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character and judgement". - Cicero

“So it is right always to wait, with a faith energized by love, for the illumination which will enable us to speak. For nothing is so destitute as a mind philosophizing about God when it is without Him.”
- St. Nikodemos

“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.” - Frank Herbert

“I try all things, I achieve what I can.” - Herman Melville

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self". - Aristotle