To die at the command of another is to die twice.
Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run.
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.
I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.
Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.