The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
-Rabindranath Tagore
One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find that he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
-Henry Ford
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.