I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-Thomas A. Edison
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
The person who tries to stand still on the path will find that it has vanished.
-Robert R. Leichtman
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.