They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
Louise Erdrich

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. 
Christine Bovee

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved. 
W. Somerset Maugham

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. 
Joseph F. Newton

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. 
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. 
Stephen Nachmanovitch

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.  
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)