Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Thomas Wolfe