917 – “When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”

-Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi [Attributed, likely apocryphal]

733 – “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

–anonymous [See Source Notes]

721 – “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

–Mahatma Gandhi [Attributed, likely Apocryphal, See Source Notes]

714 – “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

–John Lennon [Attributed, likely Apocryphal]

638 – “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

–Ludwig van Beethoven [Attributed, likely apocryphal; See Source Notes for more info]

589 – “Write drunk; edit sober.”

–Ernest Hemingway [Almost certainly apocryphal]

568 – “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.”

–Albert Einstein [Attributed, likely Apocryphal]

561 – “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

–Cato the Elder [Attributed, almost certainly Apocryphal]