You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Zig Ziglar

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Franz Kafka

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

Trying to build a life where you never experience bad feelings is like building a ship that can't handle a storm.

Neil Strauss

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill