"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

"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

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

Frederick Douglass

“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

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch