Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy.

For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
Caleb Carr

You don't have to show people how successful you are.
Martin Yan

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Jonathan Swift

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold