Lois

“I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War