You need to ride your bike uphill when you don't want to ride uphill.

You must pedal, pedal, pedal.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

-- Kahlil Gibran

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seicho Matsumoto