Honoré de Balzac
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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.
Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Leonardo da Vinci
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
Leo Tolstoy
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.