Favorite Quotes

 

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
To have been a criminal is not a disgrace, but to remain a criminal is the biggest disgrace of all.
- Malcolm X (1925-1966)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
- Heinrich Heine  (1797-1856)
Life shrinks or expands in direct proportion to one's courage.
- Anaïs Nin  (1903 -1977)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau  (1817 -1862)
 
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually without knowing it, live your own way some distant day into the answers.
- Rainer Maria Rilke  (1875 -1926)