These are the times that try men's souls.
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.”
— Seneca
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
“If I am not for me, who will be for me? And when I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, then when?”
— Hillel the Elder