James Joyce

"Hope is the defiance of despair."

"Change is the only constant of existence."

"The mind that opens to wonder remains forever young."

"Solitude is not isolation but communion with the infinite."

"The greatest adventure is the journey inward."

"Success is measured not in fame but in integrity."

"Humor is the weapon of the wise."

"The words we speak echo through eternity."

"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works."

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant."

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves."

"When the mind is quickened to imagination, all things are tail and ear for the poet."

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives."

"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."

"He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life."

"One great writer is worth a thousand mediocrities."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of fiction."

"In the particular is contained the universal."

"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."

"The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."

"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic purpose."

"To be just, I should suffer wrong also in my turn."

"One cannot eat the same bread twice, every moment has something of the new."

"We are bodies before we are minds."

"The eternal note of sadness rings through his verses."

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday. I am the joint force of everybody that came before me."