Francisco de Quevedo

"Science seeks truth; religion seeks comfort; wisdom knows the difference."

"The longest journey begins with a single step away from comfort."

"To work without passion is to be enslaved by necessity."

"The imagination of a child holds more truth than the philosophy of ages."

"Perseverance is stubbornness with a noble purpose."

"A lie spoken well is more dangerous than a truth spoken poorly."

"Leadership is the burden of those who cannot refuse it."

"The change we fear most is often the change we need most."

"In solitude, we meet ourselves without the masks society demands."

"The artist's curse is seeing beauty where others see only surfaces."

"Nature's cruelty is honest; man's cruelty wears the mask of justice."

"To be forgotten is to be freed from the tyranny of memory."

"The music of the spheres is less sweet than silence after war."

"Faith without doubt is faith untested."

"The real poverty is not the lack of money but the lack of imagination."

"Success is the fool's substitute for meaning."

"Happiness is not found; it is recognized in moments already lived."

"The family we choose is often more loyal than the family we're born to."

"Fear is the gateway through which courage must pass."

"Health is wealth to the poor and burden to the rich."

"Justice is blind not from virtue but from the inability to bear witness."

"The written word outlives empires while spoken words die in the mouth."

"Money is the sinew of the powerful and the chains of the weak."

"A life of pleasure is often a death of purpose."

"The inspiration that comes without struggle is the inspiration that leaves without consequence."

"To love and lose is better than never to have loved at all."

"Politics is the art of convincing men to act against their interests."

"The greatest knowledge is knowing what we do not know."

"Motivation without action is merely the practice of failure."

"The technology we create eventually creates us."