"Delusive hope still points to distant good...." - Quote by Euripides

“Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”

“If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.”

“I don't think anybody in America ought to be scared.”

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.”

“I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision.”

“Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.”