"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants." -Charles J. C. Lyall
"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality." -Muriel Spark
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else." -Cardinal de Retz
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." -James Joyce
"Hope is only the love of life." -Henri Frdric Amiel
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand." -Baruch Spinoza
"Nothing we human beings do is without emotion." -Pete Townshend
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." -Johann von Goethe
"The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination." -Emily Dickinson
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less." -La Bruyere