How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Saint Augustine

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Carrie Fisher

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Samuel Johnson

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

John Bunyan

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Anonymous

Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Robertson Davies

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Elsa Maxwell

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain