Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

Peter Paul Rubens

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Carl Sagan

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

It is only in alert silence that truth can be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

David Bohm

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Alain de Botton

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus M. Jones

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

W. Clement Stone