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“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
Albert Einstein
“If you truly expect something to be difficult, it will be.”
Peter A. Cohen
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent without effort is like an unpolished gem. Its possibilities are within it, but necessity has not yet activated all its parts. That gem becomes polished only by the intense heat applied from within.”
Thomas A. Edison
“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
Deepak Chopra
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“By words the mind is winged.”
Aristophanes
“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
Aristotle
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and passion to reach for the stars and change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer
“If you care about someone enough, you'll always be there for them no matter what.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Dogen
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein
“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”
Pablo Picasso
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
William Shakespeare
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
C.S. Lewis
“Actually, he was dead already. You didn't have to shoot him. It was a perfectly ordinary death.”
Mark Twain
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Yogi Berra
“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.”
Criss Jami
“Life must be rich and full of loving-it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. ”
Jack Kerouac

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