Quotes

  • Hostages to fortune

    He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

  • Excellence

    We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

  • I come from a long line of stupendous bad asses

    “Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo—which, given the number and variety of its descendants,…