Voltaire

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

- Voltaire, writer and philosopher

Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."

- Mahatma Gandhi, activist, political and spiritual leader

James Branch Cabell

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

- James Branch Cabell, author

Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

- Anais Nin, author

Leo Buscaglia

"A life lived in love will never be dull."

- Leo Buscaglia, author and motivational speaker

Adrian Mitchell

"Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people."

- Adrian Mitchell, poet, author, playwright, journalist

Ann Radcliffe

"I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it."

- Ann Radcliffe, author

Publilius Syrus

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Edmund Burke

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

- Edmund Burke, orator, philosopher, politician

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author

Aldous Huxley

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley, author and critic

Clarence Darrow

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

- Clarence Darrow, lawyer

B. F. Skinner

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner, psychologist

Adrienne Rich

"Lying is done with words and also with silence."

- Adrienne Rich, poet

Jules Renard

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."

- Jules Renard, author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher and poet

James Thurber

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."

- James Thurber, cartoonist, humourist, author

Anton Chekhov

"Man is what he believes."

- Anton Chekhov, physician, writer, playwright

John Steinbeck

"A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."

- 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck

Bertrand Russell

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, historian

Aristotle

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends"

- Aristotle, philosopher

D. H. Lawrence

“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

- D. H. Lawrence, author, poet, playwright and critic

George D. Prentice

"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his"

- George Dennison Prentice, newspaper editor

Albert Einstein

"The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Mae West

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

- Mae West, actor and playwright

Oscar Wilde

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

- Oscar Wilde, poet, novelist, dramatist and critic

Anthony Robbins

“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”

- Anthony Robbins, self-help author and motivational speaker

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -"

- 'Hope is the thing with feathers...' by Emily Dickinson

Ovid

"Love will enter cloaked friendship's name."

- Ovid, ancient Roman poet

Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist