It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Source Unknown

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Russel Honore

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Alberto Moravia

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Plato

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude LeviStrauss

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Renee Repound

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

Kedar Joshi

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Leigh Hunt