“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”

“In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment”

“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”

“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy”

“O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise,. And on the inward vision close the eyes,. But it is wisdom to believe the heart.”

“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”

“Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.”

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

“The wisest man has something yet to learn.”

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.”

“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.”

“The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.”

“All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.”

“What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.”

“When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.” 

“The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.” 

“Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.” 

“if you don’t stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?” 

“Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.” 

“The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.” 

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”

“we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.”