"The pen is the tongue of the mind." — Horace

"Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." — Lee Iacocca

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life." — Simone Weil

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes." — Dylan Thomas

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident." — Francesco Guicciardini

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." — Daniel J. Boorstin

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason." — Charles Darwin