To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

The inclination only desires that which is forbidden.

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 9:1

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Kiran Desai

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

Epictetus

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Savage Landor