O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

~ Chanakya 

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. 

~ Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972) 

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. 
~ Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) 

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

~ Bill Cosby 

It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. 

~ Publilius Syrus, writer (c. 1st century BCE) 

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it. 

~ Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519) 

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 

~ Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) 

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. 

~ Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) 

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. 

~ Jewish proverb 

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. 

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (1890-1969) 

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. 

~ Marie Curie, scientist, Nobel laureate (1867-1934) 

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. 

~ R.K. Narayan, writer (1906-2001) 

Imagine there's no countries,

It isn't hard to do, 

Nothing to kill or die for, 

No religion too, 

Imagine all the people 

living life in peace. 

~ John Lennon, musician (1940-1980) 

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. 

~ Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890) 

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

~ C. S. Lewis 

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. 

~ Emily Post, author and columnist (1872-1960) 

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. 

~ Gore Vidal, author (1925-2012) 

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always. 

~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)