“Ars longa, vita brevis”

• Latin; “art is long, life is brief”

“Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.”

• Fight Club

“One-thousand days of training to forge, ten-thousand days of training to refine. But a bout is decided in a split second.”

• Miyamoto Musashi

“Si vis pacem para bellum”

• Latin proverb meaning: if you want peace, prepare for war

“Most guys run from fights. ‘Cause they don’t want the answer to the inevitable question that every man whispers to himself... ‘Am I one of the weak? Or am I one of the strong?’”

• Alvey, Kingdom

“Festina lente”

• Latin proverb meaning “make haste, slowly”

“Dulce periculum”

• Latin “danger is sweet”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

• Salvador Dali

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

• Roy T. Bennett

“Don’t worry, the right ones won’t leave.”

“Comparison Destroys Personality”