Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We'll start to forget a place once we left it

Charles Dickens

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Gustave Flaubert

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

George Harrison

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Albert Schweitzer

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Gertrude Stein

For knowledge itself is power.latin: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.; always seen as Knowledge is power and appears inscribed on the wall of the north lobby of The Library of Congress (The Thomas Jefferson Building)

Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacr

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

Lord Chesterfield

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

George Gobel