We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and

Give me your tired, your poor,

Emma Lazarus, Excerpted from a p

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities

Samuel Johnson

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more dangerous to the shackles of complacency and the warden of fear than philosophy in action.

Steve Maraboli

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Julie Taymor

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Adam Savage

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Oliver Goldsmith

It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes