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

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Anne Tyler

“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

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

— Colette

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Henry Miller

“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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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“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

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

— Simone Weil

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”

— Wallace Stevens

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus