Responsibility and sovereignty are different things. Nonetheless ...

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

-- Tennessee Williams

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.

-- Lao Tzu

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

-- Sigmund Freud

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

-- Seneca

The best way out is always through.

-- Robert Frost

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-- Seneca

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

-- Horace

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

-- James Russell Lowell