"The desire which urges us to deserve..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.”

“To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.”

“Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.”

“We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.”

“The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.”

“You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !”

“I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.”

“When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.”

“Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!”