“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
“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
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
