George Eliot

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

- George Eliot, author

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., jurist

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

- Victoria Holt, pen name of Eleanor Hibbert, author

J. K. Rowling

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

- Henry David Thoreau, author poet developmental critic

George Bernard Shaw

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

- George Bernard Shaw, critic and playwright

Dag Hammmarskjold

"Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions."

- Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat, economist, author

Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Rita Mae Brown

"Good judgement comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgement."

- Rita Mae Brown, author

James Joyce

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce, author