All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. - Juvenal
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.- Edgar Allan Poe
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. - Nadia Boulanger
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. - Barbara Streisand
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. - John Irving
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. - Daniel J. Boorstin
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. - J. B. Priestley
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are. - Joan Rivers
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. - Bernard Williams
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. - Jean Paul
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
