I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments. . . . [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation,. . . in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to,. . . [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.
If you're studying Buddhism you never really have enough time because you're going to die.
Those who never have time do least
Leadership is about change. . . The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.