The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success,
but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you
a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

– Gustav

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand,
he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

– Voltaire

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was,
the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

– Marcel Pagnol

Justice and power must be brought together,
so that whatever is just may be powerful,
and whatever is powerful may be just.

– Blaise Pascal

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

– Voltaire