“What are men to rocks and mountains?” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The mainspring of creativity appears to be…man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities.” — Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…So, God created humankind in his image.” (Genesis)

“So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.” — Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” — Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence." — Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics