If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled.

Beauty will save the world.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains save both.

-- The 'Desert Fox' whose North African campaigns made him the most respected German general of World War II among both allies and enemies

Intelligence is worth a thousand soldiers.

-- The Mamluk sultan who stopped the Mongol advance at Ain Jalut

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

-- Ernest Hemingway

There are no second acts in American lives.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald