Anatole France

"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered in the infinitely varied forms of this nature."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on green earth in the present moment."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business."

"The future is like a ship on the ocean—we cannot see it, but we feel its motion beneath us."

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

"The seed of a great discovery is often hidden in a great disaster."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"To be happy, one must not be too concerned with others."

"The greatest gift we can give one another is an understanding that transcends words."

"Youth is the period in which a man is still writing errors, not reading them."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."

"When a man laughs at his troubles, he gets relief; when he merely thinks of them, he gets misery."

"Every one desires to live long, but no one wishes to be old."

"The noblest and most productive pleasure is that of the intellect."

"We must learn to live with imperfection if we are to approach perfection."

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"A person who makes no mistakes never tries anything new."

"The purpose of education is not to fill minds with facts but to teach them to think."