Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. – Aristotle
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. – Aldous Huxley
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. – Andrew Carnegie
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A. A. Milne
I’m reading a book, because I’m brainy. No, it is a book – if you don’t know, it is like a blog except bigger. – Craig Ferguson
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. – Charles Baudelaire
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. – Albert Ellis
I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation. – Ellie Goulding
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. – Daniel Defoe
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. – Galileo Galilei