Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

Steve Maraboli

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas Alva Edison

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Charles Caleb Colton

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

Edward de Bono

Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!

Nicety

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

Sebastian Junger

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

Thomas Carlyle

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Grace Slick