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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.”
Lao Tzu
“True prayer has no set form.”
Morihei Ueshiba
“Tis better to have loved and lost. <br>Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Tennyson
“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
T. S. Eliot
“Anyone with a new idea is a crank... until the idea succeeds.”
Mark Twain
“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
Peter Drucker
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Pablo Picasso
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”
Mason Cooley
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”
Ronald Reagan
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
Kahlil Gibran
“It doesn't matter what you do, only how well you do it.”
Dan Millman
“He believed in me. And I found that so empowering.”
— Bill Atkinson
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.”
Robert Browning
“Make peace with your inner turmoil.”
— Unknown
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
— Mao Zedong
“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
— Elizabeth Edwards
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
— Augusten Burroughs
“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark Twain

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