Jedediah Leland

"Money is the only language that never lies."

"Health is something we appreciate only after losing it."

"Every adventure I undertook led to some unforeseen sorrow."

"I have imagined many things, but never my own irrelevance."

"The greatest technology cannot bridge the gap between souls."

"History is written by those we tried to defeat."

"Philosophy is the refuge of those who have failed at living."

"Literature alone preserves what life destroys."

"Politics is the art of choosing which truth to hide."

"War is when men finally admit what they truly believe."

"Motivation is merely another word for desperation."

"Inspiration comes to us disguised as catastrophe."

"A relationship is the slow death of individual dreams."

"Solitude is not peace but the absence of distraction."

"I have been brave, and I have been a coward, often in the same hour."

"The only constant change in life is our resistance to it."

"Education taught me how to think; experience taught me that I was wrong."

"Happiness is what eludes us precisely because we pursue it."

"Family binds us not through love but through inescapable history."

"Patience is what we cultivate when we have already lost."

"Kindness costs nothing except the person who practices it."

"Strength without compassion is merely brutality."

"Fear is the constant companion of the truly aware."

"Dreams are the lies we tell ourselves about who we might become."

"Beauty fades, but the memory of beauty torments forever."

"Death is the only appointment we cannot postpone."

"Perseverance in a losing cause is merely obstinacy."

"Gratitude is what we feel only in hindsight."

"Creativity is the privilege of those unbound by consequence."

"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to restrain the strong."