"Words are but pictures of our thoughts." — John Dryden

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves." — Robert Quillen

"Doubt is the father of invention." — Ambrose Bierce

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge." — Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." — Rebecca West

"Work is much more fun than fun." — Noel Coward

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas A. Edison

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." — Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." — Henry Miller

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." — William Shakespeare