I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]
--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself.
We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.
We've been a band longer than most of the people reading this have been alive.
Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.