I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
-Pietro Aretino
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
-William James
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
-Cornelia "Corrie" Ten Boom
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
-Jesus Christ
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Silence makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck