“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.”

— Karl Popper

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

— George Orwell

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

— Colette