A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. Hermann Hesse

Never wound a snake; kill it. Harriet Tubman

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt