"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times."
- G.Michael Hopf

"He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak." - Yukio Mishima