Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: “Yourself, sir,” replied the other, “by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.

He firmly believed in what he was doing, and you couldn't sway him from that. It was wonderful to have someone like him keeping that vision for us?knowing that things were going to get better and could get better.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.