Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-- Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Robert Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-- Robert Kennedy

Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Mark Twain

Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- Chanakya

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. 
— Harper Lee

Anon.

If you give in today, you will be twice as likely to give in tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be a little careful of your Library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anon.

He who waits to do a great deal of good all at once, will never do anything.”

Anonymous

Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of it.

Anonymous

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

-- Plutarch

Charlotte Bronte

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.  The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed and still I was alone.”

--Charlotte Bronte

Gordon B. Hinckley

“A truly educated man never ceases to learn.”

--Gordon B. Hinckley

Jane Austen

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

--Jane Austen