When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: do not recite poems to anyone who is not a poet.

From a Ch'an Buddhist classic quoted in Thunder in The Shy

There is no duty we underestimate more than the duty to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Each person that passes through our lives is a new person, who should never be treated based on previous experiences, otherwise it is you who will make all your decisions...

Unknown

A dream dreamed alone is a dream. A dream dreamed together is reality.

Yoko Ono

Tolerance is the best of religions.

Victor Hugo

All advantages have their tax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson