Choose a mind to meet

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.”

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

“Be silent, Odin! You never knew how to distribute justice among men.”

“We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”

“I do not seek souls; they seek me. I merely run the register.”

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

“Listen to them: the children of the night. What music they make!”

“The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

“Curiouser and curiouser! Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!”

“Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you!”

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.”

“Mind is the forerunner of all things. Mind is chief, mind-made are they.”

“Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)”

“I have loved women to madness, but I have always preferred my liberty to them.”

“The Sovereign is absolute; for there is no other authority but that which centers in his person.”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds... we shall never surrender.”

“I will not be triumphed over.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”

“Stand out of my sunlight.”

“To change the world, my friend Sancho, is not madness or utopia, but simple justice.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?”

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

“And yet it moves.”

“My life is my message.”

“I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”

“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care.”

“We will either find a way, or make one.”

“I was conductor of the Underground Railroad... I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. The important thing is that you don't just give up.”

“Am I not king? Does not the crown of England answer to God alone?”

“The path to the stars from the earth is not easy. But the brave man must endure.”

“My brain is the key that sets me free.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

“If I am not in the state of grace, may God place me there; if I am, may God keep me there.”

“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“Might is not right. Might must only be used for right.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

“I was calm, as people are when their conscience reproaches them with nothing.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

“It was not my crime, yet it is my face that must be hidden from the world.”

“A king is not a master of the land, but its first servant, bound by the magic of his oath.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“The present time, together with the past, is judged by the great intellectual soul.”

“Cattle die, kinsmen die, all men must die. But the memory of a noble name never perishes.”

“Tell me, Muse, of the man of twists and turns, driven time and again off course.”

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, cities will never have rest from their evils.”

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“A breath of prayer is not lost, it has its effect.”

“I will rob no man who is poor and needy, but those who grow fat on the sweat of others.”

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

“I'm for whatever gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.”

“The sea calls to the bold, and though it has broken my ships, it has never broken my spirit.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“With great power there must also come great responsibility!”

“I believe that education is all about excitement. When I talk to people, I want to get them so excited that they want to go out and save our wildlife.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“I am always empty, the hunger is a fire that cannot be quenched.”

“I care not for your clever words, giant. Let my hammer answer your riddles!”

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

“The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you.”

“Hurl me from heaven down to the abyss, yet you cannot drag down Zeus, supreme of all.”