Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Thomas Aquinas

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Jerry Kramer

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

Elton John

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

R. D. Laing, The Politics of Exp

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Aeschylus

Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and keep questioning yourself.

Elon Musk

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Jo Nesbo

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

Albert Brooks