It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-George Washington
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
-Paulo Coelho
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.