You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
-Galileo Galilei-

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-Abigail Adams-

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
-Gustave Flaubert-

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
-C.S. Lewi-

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer-

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
-George Bernard Shaw-

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

-John F. Kennedy-

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
-The Dalai Lama-

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein-

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
-G. K. Chesterton-

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe-

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein-

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence-

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
~Mark Twain-

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James Matthew Barrie-

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-Abraham Lincoln-

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
-Solon-