“ If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. Anthony Liccione
“ We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths n… Virginia Alison
“ In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story. J.M. Coetzee
“ God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. K. Howard Joslin
“ Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories? J.M. Coetzee
“ As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his e… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe. Apsley Cherry-Garrard
“ And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe, it isn’t with those parents who… Chirag Tulsiani
“ It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us. John Cassian
“ To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions. Suzy Kassem
