"Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged."

-- William Wordsworth

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.”
“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.”
“Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.”

Source : John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.278, Random House
“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment], is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”
“To live a life half dead, a living death.”
“An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.”
“At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'”

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