The best teacher one can have is necessity.
—Francois de La Noue (French Huguenot)
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
—G. Stanley Hall (American Psychologist)
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand.
—Gunter Grass (German Novelist, Poet)
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
—Phyllis Bottome (British Novelist)
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity’s call.
—Channing Pollock (American Playwright, Critic)
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
—Friedrich Schiller (German Poet)
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
—H. L. Mencken (American Journalist, Literary Critic)
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
—George MacDonald (Scottish Poet, Novelist)
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
—William Hazlitt (English Essayist)
A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Playwright)
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it’s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
—Vanna Bonta (American Writer)
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
—Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish Philosopher, Writer)