

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”
Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.
“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”
Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”
As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”
“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'épouvantable dans le suicide.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part I: The Talisman
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128
“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”
Song Beautiful People
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book I. Preparation and Departure, Lines 547–549 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27