You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-Walker Percy
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
-Benjamin Disraeli
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Whatever we are doing, believing, thinking, desiring, understanding, feeling – if we are not aware of them while aware of ourselves in the present – we are asleep, and all are but embers of a dream.
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
The soul which is free from the defect of karma gets to the highest point of the universe, knows all and perceives all, and obtains the transcendental bliss everlasting.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
-Marie Curie