Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

God creates men, but they choose each other.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

—Theodore Parker

A person who believes… that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough.

—Jay Crownover in Rule

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

—Harry S. Truman