Fernando Pessoa

"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built."

"All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous."

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."

"We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is dividedIn right or wrong."