Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

You work your side of the street and I’ll work mine. — Frank Bullitt

To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear. — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. — Anais Nin

Listen to me for a day . . . an hour! . . . a moment! lest I expire in my terrible wilderness, my lonely silence! O God, is there no one to listen? — Seneca, 4 BC

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

Facing it — always facing it — that’s the way to get through. — Joseph Conrad, Typhoon

Man has no alternative, except between being influenced by thought that has been thought out and being influenced by thought that has not been thought out. — G.K. Chesterton

When everyone dislikes a man, enquiry is necessary; when everyone likes a man, enquiry is necessary. — Confucius

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

A gentleman does not grieve that people do not recognize his merits; he grieves at his own incapacities — Confucius

We are all here on earth to help others; what the others are here for, I don’t know. — W.H. Auden