Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

There are no second acts in American lives.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

-- George Orwell

There was no road on earth to begin with. When many people walk the same way, a road comes into being.

-- Lu Xun

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

-- Seicho Matsumoto

In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to recall.

-- Miguel de Cervantes