Forgive your enemies, but don't mistake them for a friend.
Learn to love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
Stanislavski
Every change begins when the pain of staying the same weighs more.
Unknown author
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
John F. Kennedy
No one sacrifices themselves for doing what they like. Suffering is doing what you don't want to do. For those who do what they don't want, even a flower is heavy.
Valter da Rosa Borges
Every work of a man, whether in literature, music, painting, architecture, or anything else, is always a self-portrait; and the more he tries to hide...
Samuel Butler