‘The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.’ — Henry Miller

‘The end of labor is to gain leisure.’ — Aristotle

‘What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.’ — Ellen Glasgow

‘I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.’ — R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Leap, and the net will appear.’ — John Burroughs

‘Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.’ — Iris Murdoch

‘Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.’ — Confucius

‘Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.’ — Oscar Wilde

‘It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.’ — Epicurus

‘A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.’ — Saul Bellow

‘The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.’ — William Inge

‘Freedom is not enough.’ — Lyndon B. Johnson

‘Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.’ — Oliver Goldsmith

‘Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.’ — Samuel Butler

‘Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.’ — Michel de Montaigne

‘I always entertain great hopes.’ — Robert Frost

‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.’ — Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.’ — Albert Einstein

‘Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.’ — Oscar Wilde

‘Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.’ — Warren E. Burger

‘Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.’ — Herbert Hoover

‘Hitch your wagon to a star.’ — Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.’ — John Paul Jones

‘Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.’ — George Washington

‘Only the educated are free.’ — Epictetus

‘Never find fault with the absent.’ — Alexander Pope

‘Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.’ — Baltasar Gracián

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ — Alexandre Dumas

‘Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.’ — Laurence Sterne

‘Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.’ — Henry Ward Beecher

‘What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.’ — Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.’ — Daniel J. Boorstin

‘There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.’ — Robert Quillen

‘Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.’ — Thomas A. Edison