Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Source Unknown

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Ich hatte eine sehr exakte Vorstellung davon, was ich gerade jetzt von diesem ansehnlichen Fremden verlangt hätte. Und dabei wäre seiner angeblich so geschickten Zunge definitiv eine der Hauptrollen zugefallen.

Emilia Polo

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Madame de Stael

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

Padma Lakshmi

Maybe I couldn

Germaine Greer

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

Merce Cunningham

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Captive King

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eugene O'Neill

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer