John Updike
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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.
Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
Ulysses S. Grant
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Edgar Allan Poe
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Charlie Chaplin
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.
Franz Kafka
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Lao Tzu
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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.
Izaak Walton
No man can lose what he never had.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.