All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as beingself-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)