"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

""You cannot change the cards you are dealt, just how you play the hand.""
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

""Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.""
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

""Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.""
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

"- A pan czy wierzy w duchy - spytał prelegenta jeden ze słuchaczy.
- Oczywiście, że nie - odparł prelegent, po czym z wolna rozpłynął
się w powietrzu.

free translation:
-Do you believe in ghosts Sir? - listener asked a lecturer.
-No,of course not - answered lecturer and slowly disappear into thin air."
— ? In a book of Strugatsky "Monday starts on Saturday"