Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness.

It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world!

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
American writer, activist

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Swiss physicist

"It is wonderful what you can do when you have to."

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Irish writer, scholar

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)