The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Promote talent and talent alone.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

We will either find a way, or make one.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees