Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Aldous Huxley
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that all is opinion.