The quality of a really virtuous person is to be unknown to people, or misunderstood by people, but not to be disappointed by this.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

William Hazlitt

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

Melissa de la Cruz

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Philip Dunne

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A Bartlett Giamatti

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

John Wanamaker

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

Cardi B

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Virginia Woolf

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Gaston Bachelard

No one escapes from life alive.

Michael Crichton

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt