“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

James Fenimore Cooper

"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

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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

Rudyard Kipling

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

Frederick Douglass

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas