In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
-Buddha

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
-Dalai Lama

Imagination rules the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Experience is the teacher of all things.
-Julius Caesar

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
-Plato

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
-Edgar Allan Poe

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
-Albert Einstein

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
-Stephen Hawking

-- Lastly, as uncanny as the source may be, it rings truer than anything else on this list. --

Every day that you wait, you're falling faster.
No slide of hand, No twist of fate, No ever after.
When it's gone, it's gone,
A fight 'til the bitter end,
Life won't wait for you,
No, life won't wait for you, my friend

-Ozzy Osbourne

I am an a*****e.
I am a d**k.
What you see here is what I show you.
To think anything otherwise is naive.

Stay away from me at all costs.

You have been warned.