You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
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
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx