"In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place." Elizabeth Gilbert
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." George Bernard Shaw
"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." Diogenes
"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." Balzac
"To every man there comes in his life that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents, what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for that which would be his finest hour." Winston Churchill
