The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston Churchill

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

J. W. von Goethe

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare