‘We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.’ — Stewart Udall
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‘The pen is the tongue of the mind.’ — Horace
‘Adventure is worthwhile.’ — Aesop
‘My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.’ — Lee Iacocca
‘Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.’ — Simone Weil
‘When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.’ — Dylan Thomas
‘The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.’ — Francesco Guicciardini
‘We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.’ — Martin Luther King Jr.
‘What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.’ — Marcus Tullius Cicero
‘Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.’ — Daniel J. Boorstin
‘The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.’ — Charles Darwin
‘Words are but pictures of our thoughts.’ — John Dryden
‘There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.’ — Robert Quillen
‘Doubt is the father of invention.’ — Ambrose Bierce
‘Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.’ — Isaac Bashevis Singer
‘Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.’ — Rebecca West
‘Work is much more fun than fun.’ — Noël Coward
‘To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.’ — Henry David Thoreau
‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’ — Thomas A. Edison
‘That which does not kill us makes us stronger.’ — Friedrich Nietzsche