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“It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.”
— Warren Buffett
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
— Socrates
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
— Martin Luther
“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
— Steve Jobs
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
— Richard Bach
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
— Coco Chanel
“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
— Blaise Pascal
“I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.”
— Paulo Coelho
“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
— C. S. Lewis
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
— Madame Curie
“The doer alone learneth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates curiosity. You then learn for the rest of your life.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
— Plato
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
— Carl Jung
“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.”
— Charlie Munger
“You know, I guess one person can make a difference.”
— Stan Lee
“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
— Aristotle
“To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future.”
— John Eliot
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
— Dale Carnegie

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