Walter Lippman

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much"

- Walter Lippman, writer, reporter

James Branch Cabell

"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is"

- James Branch Cabell, author

Carl Sagan

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we get nowhere."

- Carl Sagan, astronomer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"This is the true measure of love: When we belive that we alone can love, that no one could have ever loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, philosopher and intellectual

OneRepublic

"I'll become what I can't be."

- OneRepublic, "Stop And Stare"

Robert Browning

"A minute's success pays the failure of years"

- Robert Browning, poet and playwright

Alexander Pope

"All nature is but art unknown to thee"

- Alexander Pope, poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"For 'tis not in mere death that men die most"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet

Alfred Tennyson

"Dreams are true while they last and do we not live in dreams?"

- Alfred Tennyson, poet

Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Frida Kahlo

"Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?"

- Frida Kahlo, artist

Anais Nin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin, author

Ayn Rand

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."

- Ayn Rand, author

Jeannette Rankin

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

- Jeannette Rankin, first female member of Congress, pacifist

George Bernard Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

John Henry Newman

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

- John Henry Newman, Roman priest and cardinal

William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet

Confucius

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius, philosopher and social activist

Patrick Park

"We forget how strange it is just to be alive at all."

- Patrick Park, "Life Is A Song"

Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."

- Robert Frost, poet

Albert Einstein

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

George Bernard Shaw

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Oscar Wilde

"Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable."

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I need to be"

- Douglas Adams, author and dramatist

Plato

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men"

- Plato, ancient Greek philosopher and author

Jane Austen

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

- Jane Austen, author

Ovid

"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Ronald Reagan

"People don't start wars, governments do."

- Ronald Reagan, former US president

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Charles Du Bos

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

- Charles Du Bos, French critic