"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper
“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
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau
“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
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
William Shakespeare
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
