“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

William Shakespeare

“If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”

Fight Club

“With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”

Susan Sontag

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”

Simone de Beauvoir

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

D. H. Lawrence

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

Albert Camus

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

Leo Tolstoy

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

Carl Jung