"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being ruled by your inferiors." - Plato
"You have to go through a lot of nightmares before you accomplish your dreams"
"There are no men like me, only me"
"Aging means losing things, and not just eyesight and flexibility. It means watching the accomplishments of your youth be diminished, maybe in your own eyes through perspective, maybe in the eyes of others through cultural amnesia. Most people live anonymous lives, and when they grow old and die, any record of their existence is blown away. They're forgotten, some more slowly than others, but eventually it happens to virtually everyone. Yet for the few people in each generation who reach the very pinnacle of fame and achievement, a mirage flickers: immortality"