"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." Daniel J. Boorstin

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." Francesco Guicciardini

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." Dylan Thomas

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." Simone Weil

"The pen is the tongue of the mind." Horace

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness." Stewart Udall

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." Alexis de Tocqueville

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." James Baldwin

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." Epicurus

"Patience is the companion of wisdom." Saint Augustine

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it." Charlotte Whitton

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Jean Paul

"The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." Frederick William Faber

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." Vernon Howard

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake." Matthew Prior

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." Albert Einstein

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." Anne Frank

"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes." Hannah Arendt