"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
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
“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
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
