Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

-- Horace, Fragments

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

-- Ludwig van Beethoven, War and Peace

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

-- Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.

-- Roy T. Bennett, Bumi Manusia

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

-- Albert Einstein, City of Bones

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

-- Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

If we open our mind, doors will open without keys.

-- Alin Sav, The Book on What Ever You're Into: These Are the 52 Timeless Winning Truths You Need to Know to Have

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

-- Jennifer Salaiz, Eat, Pray, Love

The measure of a man is his state of mind.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Talon of the Silver Hawk

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

-- Bill Cosby, Different Seasons

Worship God with deep reverence.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

-- Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

A mindset that understands order, is a mindset that can understand leadership.

-- Wayne Chirisa, Determination

I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.

-- Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice

-- Howell James, Twin-Bred

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

-- Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

Imagination can bring you far. Laziness can also bring you far, far from your goals.

-- Alin Sav, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

-- Bill Watterson, V for Vendetta

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

-- Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper