Dolores Ibarruri

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

- Dolores Ibarruri, politician

Michel de Montaigne

"I quote others only in order to better to express myself."

- Michel de Montaigne, statesman and author

Sam Levenson

"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."

- Sam Levenson, comedian, writer, journalist

Tryon Edwards

"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both."

- Tryon Edwards, theologian

Mark Twain

"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."

- Mark Twain, author

Virgina Woolf

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

- Virginia Woolf, author

Kin Hubbard

"When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money."

- Kin Hubbard, cartoonist, humourist, journalist

Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust, novelist, critic, essayist

Peter Drucker

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker, writer and management consultant

Voltaire

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

James Earl Jones

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."

- James Earl Jones, actor

Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher

Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our distrust is very expensive."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Erich Fromm

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

- Erich Fromm, psychologist, philosopher and author

Abraham Lincoln

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.'"

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary

Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Seneca

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

- Seneca, ancient Roman orator and writer

Bette Midler

"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance,
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance,
It's the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give,
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live."

- Bette Midler, "The Rose"

Henry Ward Beecher

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

- Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman, orator and social reformer

Henri Bergson

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

- Henri Bergson, philosopher

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, poet, physician

Frank Crane

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

- Frank Crane, actor and director

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Thomas Wolfe

"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."

- Thomas Wolfe, author

Isocrates

"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can."

- Isocrates, Ancient Greek orator

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

- Eleanor Roosevelt, US diplomat and reformer