"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. "
— Henry David Thoreau

"We must always take sides. Neutality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
— Elie Wiesel

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
— Henry David Thoreau

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
— Henry David Thoreau

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
— Henry David Thoreau