"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
Plutarch
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Alexandre Dumas
“The man who lies to himself cannot distinguish the truth within him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
