August Strindberg

"Success is dependence upon tenacity of purpose."

"In the coming times, it will be seen that men will be less governed by law than by conscience."

"What people call insincerity has become so much the rule that it passes unnoticed."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us."

"Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them."

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

"The man who has overcome his fears will be truly free."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

"I prefer the wild man to the civilized man."

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"Art is a beautiful deception."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

"The more I know about people, the more I like my dog."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

"Life is nothing without friendship."

"Money is the sinews of business and the sinews of war."

"Hope is when you suddenly realize that life is interesting again."

"Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion."

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

"Fear is the enemy of progress."

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where."

"The sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"When love is gone, there is always justice."