“Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is what life is made of.”— Benjamin Franklin, weheartit.com
“I don’t care that much about prestige. I’ve had enough of it to know how little it matters. It doesn’t matter that much.”— Shel Silverstein, offonatangent.tumblr.com
“You know, years ago when you were a kid, it was your dream to make ‘Who’s Who’ or something like that. But after a while you realize it doesn’t mean a damn thing. Everybody knows who you are, if you are worth knowing.”— Shel Silverstein, offonatangent.tumblr.com
“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com