There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Joshua Lederberg

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

Charles Horton Cooley

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Abraham Lincoln

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Energy is eternal delight.

William Blake

For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.

John Boyle O'Reilly

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is nowmingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Rabindranath Tagore

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

C.S. Lewis

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.

Walter Russell