“I ain’t looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.” —Bob Dylan

(National Gallery of Ireland)

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.” —Samuel Goldwyn

(Cimitero Monumentale di Udine)

“A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.” —Confucius

(Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest)