To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
-William Thackeray
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
-Erich Fromm
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
-Gustave Flaubert
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon