"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

~Saadi

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one."

~George R.R. Martin

"History teaches, but it has no pupils."

~Antonio Gramsci

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

~Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

~Oscar Wilde

"The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self."

~Dalai Lama

"It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good."

~Paula Scher

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”

~Leonardo da Vinci