"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Emile Zola

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom." Robert Frost

"Who does not grow, declines." Rabbi Hillel

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Him your plans." Yiddish Proverb

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso

"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today." Ernest Hemingway

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." Charles Dickens

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." Cicero

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." Friedrich Nietzsche

"It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered." Confucius

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius

“A human being is not a human being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper, and attacking other people.” Al-Ghazzali

“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso

“Only the brave know how to forgive. A coward never forgives; it is not in his nature.” Laurence Sterne

“Strong people have strong weaknesses.” Peter Drucker

"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." Samuel Butler

"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned." Saint Francis of Assisi

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth

"In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained." Goerges Braque

“Through life’s rush
never forget compassion”