Poetry can tell us what human beings are. It can tell us why we stumble and fall and how, miraculously, we can stand up. —Maya Angelou
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? —Jack Kornfield
Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. —Charles Dickens
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. —Franz Kafka
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom. —Herbie Hancock
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. —Menander
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. —Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. —Linus Pauling
The pretensions of final truth are always partly an effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. —Reinhold Niebuhr
Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life. —Robert Greene
Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own. —Harry S. Truman