Cosimo de Medici

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."

"All things are ready, if our minds be so."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Change is the only constant in this life."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver they make."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The early bird gets the worm."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"I learn as I go."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"The only prison people dwell in is fear."

"Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream."