Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
Desire is the very essence of man.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
A precedent embalms a principle.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Intelligence is a moral category.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Wisdom begins at the end.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.