In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Words without experience are meaningless.
Vladimir Nabokov

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To thine own self be true. 
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Nothing will come of nothing.
William Shakespeare (King Lear)

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither with age.
James Joyce

...tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further...And one fine morning -
​So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst
Anon

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.
George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. 
William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald