James Anthony Froude

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

- James Anthony Froude, author, historian and magazine editor

Henry David Thoreau

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet and development critic

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."

- Martin Luther King Jr., social activist and reformer

Ellen DeGeneres

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."

- Ellen DeGeneres, comedian

Belle and Sebastian

"Life is good and it's always worth living, at least for a while."

- Belle and Sebastian, 'If She Wants Me'

Helen Keller

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Norman Vincent Peale

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."

- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman and author

Periander

"Freedom is a clear conscience."

- Periander, 7th century ruler of Corinth, Greece

Erich Fromm

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

- Erich Fromm, psychologist, philsopher and author

Ian Fleming

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

- Ian Fleming, author and journalist

Black Elk

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."

- Black Elk, 'Black Elk Speaks'

Carina Round

"And so they say Lord, for everything a reason
For every ending a new beginning."

- Carina Round, 'For Everything A Reason'

R. K. Milholland

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."

- R. K. Milholland, webcomic author

J. K. Rowling

"To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure."

- J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

Demosthenes

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens

Carl Jung

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."

- Carl Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist

Marcel Pagnol

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”

- Marcel Pagnol, author, playwright and filmmaker

Lawrence Clark Powell

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”

- Lawrence Clark Powell, librarian, critic, author

Daniel Johnston

"True love will find you in the end.
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
Because true love is searching too
But how can it recognise you
Unless you step out into the light?"

- Daniel Johnston, 'True Love Will Find You In The End'

Babe Ruth

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth, American Major League baseball player

Anatole France

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Ben Jonson

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."

- Ben Jonson, Renaissance playwright, poet and actor

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Victor Hugo

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

- Victor Hugo, poet, playwright, novelist, statesman, human rights activist

Alan Watts

"Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown."

- Alan Watts, philosopher, author, orator

Brianna Gaither

"Making sense of misery is not so easy when you're tired."

- Brianna Gaither, 'Stepping Stones'

William Allen White

“Peace without justice is tyranny.”

- William Allen White, author and newspaper editor

Will Rogers

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."

- Will Rogers, comedian, actor, social commentator

Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli, British politician