“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

William Shakespeare

“Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”

Russell W. Davenport

“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

William Blake

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Charles Kingsley

“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”

Henry David Thoreau

“‎…from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln

“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

Kahlil Gibran

“The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there—you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in.”

Ursula K. LeGuin

“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”

Will Durant