However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Kahlil Gibran

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso

What you are comes to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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