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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

“I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

“I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.”

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

“Art is a big question mark.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.”

Hannah Arendt book The Life of the Mind

“Now, bring me that horizon.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?”

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“My soul is in the sky.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary