Cosimo de Medici

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will make it alright."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"Hard work is the price of success."

"The dream is real, my friend. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."

"Humor is tragedy plus time."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"Freedom is the right to choose your own chains, provided you do not strike others with them."

"Power without morality is tyranny."

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Nature itself is the best physician."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"In politics, the truth is secondary to power."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"The moment of change is the only poem."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Every man is his own most vicious opponent."

"Fortune favors the bold."

"A great soul serves everyone."

"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."

"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."

"The wheel turns, but the center remains still."

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"The beginning of philosophy is a sense of wonder about how things are."