If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work.
Hubert Humphrey
A Lament for Lost Control
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased to be lord over myself. I was no longer the captain of my soul, and did not know it.
Oscar Wilde
Alter Ego
“Well,” Mr. Cheeseman interjected. “Perhaps there’s an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego.”
“What’s an alter ego?” asked Gerard.
“It’s a superhero’s true but secret identity,” said Chip. “You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent.”
“Superman is really Clark Kent?”
“It’s pretty obvious,” said Penny. “To everyone but you and Lois Lane.”
“Okay,” Gerard conceded. “Captain Fabulous’s alter ego will be…Teddy Roosevelt.”
from A Whole Nother Story by Dr. Cuthbert Soup