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.
Samuel Johnson
He who praises everybody praises nobody.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
André Gide
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Thomas Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I’ll show you a failure.
Blaise Pascal
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Émile Zola
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
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.
Nicolas Chamfort
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
Marcus Aurelius
Remember that all is opinion.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been described.
Søren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Anton Chekhov
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.