Ezra Pound

"Fear is the root of all evil, not money."

"Imagination is more important than mere knowledge."

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"To have great poets, we must first have great readers."

"The worst crime is thoughtlessness."

"Nature does not bargain; it only commands."

"Every man has his price, and it is usually much lower than he expects."

"The artist must suffer to create, but not all suffering creates art."

"Leadership is the art of saying no without making enemies."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the presence of justice."

"To dream is to believe you have a future."

"The tragedy of modern life is that most people are half-awake."

"Truth is always stranger than fiction; fiction must be reasonable."

"A man's greatest work often comes from his greatest sorrow."

"The poet is the unacknowledged legislator of the world."

"Strength is not in never falling; it is in rising after the fall."

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

"To live is to choose, and to choose is to commit oneself to a path."

"The greatest beauty lies in simplicity and clarity."

"What we call progress is often just a more elaborate form of failure."

"The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open."

"Tradition is the illusion of permanence."

"The measure of a man is what he does when the world is not watching."

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

"The only true failure is the failure to try."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

"Innovation requires destruction of the old to build the new."

"The human spirit is stronger than any force of evil."

"Health is a state of mind as much as a state of body."

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."