George Bernard Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Marian Wright Edelman

"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"

- Marian Wright Edelman, children's rights activist

Anais Nin

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

- Anais Nin, author

Publilius Syrus

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Bertrand Russell

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Jimmy Eat World

"You'll sit alone forever, if you wait for the right time."

- Jimmy Eat World, "23"

Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Brian Tracy

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy"

- Brian Tracy, self-help author and motivational speaker

Virginia Woolf

"It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything."

- Virginia Woolf, author

Richard Bach

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

- Richard Bach, author

John Naisbitt

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge."

- John Naisbitt, author

Magdalena Abakanowicz

"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine."

- Magdalena Abakanowicz, sculptor

Bruce Feirstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

- Bruce Feirstein, screenwriter and author

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Kin Hubbard

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Harriet Martineau

"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."

- Harriet Martineau, writer, philosopher, journalist

William Lyon Phelps

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him."

- William Lyon Phelps, author, critic

Agatha Christie

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."

- Agatha Christie, author and playwright

Barbara De Angelis

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment."

- Barbara De Angelis, author, relationships consultant

The Corrs

"Tell me it's true, tell me there's something more."

- The Corrs, "Good-Bye"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Alfred Tennyson

"I am a part of all that I have met."

- Alfred Tennyson, poet

Elbert Hubbard

"There is no failure, except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard, author, artist, philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."

- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist

Patrick Kavanagh

"I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day"

- 'On Raglan Road' by Patrick Kavanagh

Ovid

"So I can't live either without you or with you."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Margaret Cho

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."

- Margaret Cho, comedian, actress, author

Albert Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

- Albert Einstein, physicist