Oneself Quotes

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

I ain’t lookin down but I see no one above me.

Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

If you have the ability to turn bad situations into good ones, then you are lucky.