Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)