Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of scientific medicine, and while philanthropists are turning to it as to the hope of humanity, philosophers see, as in some far-off vision, a science from which may come in the prophetic words of the Son of Sirach, Peace over all the earth.

William Osler

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

I hope that I serve by being a teacher.

Jenna Bush

No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end.

Dan Zadra

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

John Green

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

T.H. White

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Ambrose Bierce

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Samuel Johnson