We plant our face in the dirt at the feet of these people, who have taken a name and fame-lusting slickie and turned him into a lion of peace and a divine saint.

"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

--Lord Byron

"Senator, my offer is this: nothing. Not even the price of the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally."

-Michael Corleone

People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain.

-Rumi

“One recent example I cannot pass over in silence. Pope Alexander VI did nothing else but deceive men, nor ever thought of doing otherwise, and he always found victims; for there never was a man who had greater power in asserting, or who with greater oaths would affirm a thing, yet would observe it less; nevertheless his deceits always succeeded according to his wishes, because he well understood this side of humanity.”

-Dante

"Not by the Vedas, or an austere life, or gifts to the poor, or ritual offerings can I be as thou hast seen me.
Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.
He who works for me, who loves me, whose End Supreme I am,
free from attachment to all things, and with love for all creation, he comes in truth to me."

-Krishna
chapter 11, Bhagavad Gita