"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Mark Twain

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Henry David Thoreau

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

Plutarch

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato

“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