“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

- J. K. Rowling as Albus Dumbledore

"If you don't get what you want it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."

- Rudyard Kipling

“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”

- Albert Pike

“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”

- Charles de Lint

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

- Benjamin Disraeli

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

- Philip K. Dick

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

- Thomas Carlyle