Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of doing anything great.
Henri IV of France

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill

To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.
Sophocles

The road is better than the inn.
Miguel de Cervantes

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
Ben Irwin

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snow in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with the brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
Henry David Thoreau

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
James Mason Brown

You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both.
Francis Shand Kydd

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer  does not suggest itself.
Arthur Radford

Let others praise the ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid