"Is is so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot." Walter Bagehot
"Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today." James Dean
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." George Bernard Shaw
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt." Mark Twain
"The past does not have to equal the future." Anthony Robbins
"Freedom is emptying the mind of experience." J. Krishnamurti
"It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Fight Club
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."- Helen Keller (thanks manda)
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Swift, Jonathan, Thoughts on Various Subjects
"I generally remain at home during the day; it is my time for rest. i belong, you should know, to that class of persons who turn day into night and night into day, and who love everything uncommon and peculiar." The Mysterious Stranger, Anonymous, 1860
"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." Sir Frederick G. Banting
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." Winston Churchill
