“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
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“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."
