“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“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.”
