Cosimo Medici

"Happiness is the natural state of a purposeful life."

"Success is the intersection of preparation and opportunity."

"Friendship is the mirror of the soul."

"Family roots run deeper than individual ambition."

"Hope is the fuel of human endeavor."

"Courage is the precursor to all great deeds."

"Change is the breath of progress."

"Education is the inheritance of the free."

"Knowledge is power only when applied."

"Time reveals all secrets."

"Truth is beauty in its purest form."

"Freedom requires eternal vigilance."

"Peace is the greatest achievement of civilization."

"The man who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare."

"To understand the laws of nature and use them wisely is the beginning of all power."

"I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what he or she earnestly and persistently struggles for."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"He who controls the past controls the future."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Money is like manure - it's not worth much unless you spread it around."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

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

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

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes no change in the thing it measures."

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

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