If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
-J. M. Barrie
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
O soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
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
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey