Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Cale Yarborough

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Shakespeare

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Gene Luen Yang

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anaïs Nin

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

Adi Shankara