"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision"

“A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try.”

“Like one, that on a lonesome road

Doth walk in fear and dread,

And having once turned round walks on,

And turns no more his head;

Because he knows, a frightful fiend

Doth close behind him tread.”

“The sound of the gion shoja bells…echoes the impermanence of all things. The colors of sala flowers…reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline.”

“The mind is a city like London,

Smoky and populous: it is a capital

Like Rome, ruined and eternal,

Marked by the monuments which no one

Now remembers. For the mind, like Rome, contains

Catacombs, aqueducts, amphitheatres, palaces,

Churches and equestrian statues, fallen, broken or soiled.

The mind possesses and is possessed by all the ruins

Of every haunted, hunted generation’s celebration.”

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.”

“Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

"But In The End, He's Just Another Dead Rat In A Garbage Pail Behind A Chinese Restaurant."

“I’m God’s Lonely Man.”

"If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely."

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.”

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,

Or what's a heaven for?”

“You never got me down, Ray.”

“Don’t be afraid. There’s no such thing as death…”