Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
George R.R. Martin
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead