I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

-George Bernard Shaw

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.

-Jules Verne

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

-Oscar Wilde

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

-Aesop

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

-Alan B. Watts

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

-Italian Proverb