Strange how we decorate pain.

Margaret Atwood

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Seneca

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Buddha

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

An honest thinker will highlight and confront the most intimidating counterargument. A dishonest thinker will seek out the most ludicrous counterargument and pretend it is the only counterargument.

The Stoic Emperor