There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. - Marty Rubin

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. - Rebecca West

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. - Emil Cioran

I have forgotten my umbrella. - Friedrich Nietzsche

That which yields is not always weak. - Jacqueline Carey

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. - Lao Tzu

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything. - Franz Kafka