"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Charles W.Elliot
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
C.S Lewis
"Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
William James
"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
E.Joseph Cossman
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Oscar Wilde
"The road to success is always under construction"
Lily Tomlin