I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not. - Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. - Richard Bach

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

There is no illusion greater than fear. - Lao Tzu

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. - Michel Legrand

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy. - Petar Dunov

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live - Lin Yutang

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. - Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation - Nelson Mandela

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. - Susanna Kearsley, Mariana

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish. - Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! - Karl Marx

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. - Ramana Maharshi

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. - Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. - Hugo Claus

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. - Saul D. Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals