Mythology is the religious sentiment growing wild.
—Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (German Philosopher)
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
—Ad Reinhardt (American Abstract Painter)
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
—Aeschylus (Greek Playwright)
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
—William Glasser (American Psychiatrist)
Fame is the sum of misapprehensions that accrue around a name.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (Austrian Poet)
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
—David Viscott (American Psychiatrist, Author)
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.—Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
—Epicurus (Greek Philosopher)
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
—Susan Sontag (American Writer, Philosopher)
Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
—George Goodman (American Economist)
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.
—Madam C. J. Walker (American Entrepreneur)
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
—George Boardman the Younger (American Clergyman)