Some insightful quotes or proverbs

1.Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.-Terry Pratchett
2.We are more alike,than unalike.-Maya Angelou
3.How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares were there any danger of them coming true.-Logan Pearsall Smith
4.From a thorn comes a rose,and from a rose comes a thorn.-Greek proverb
5.To abandon something halfway is to fail completely.-Chinese proverb
6.Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.-Gloria Steinem
7.Writing is the only thing that,when I do it,I don't feel I should be doing something else.-Gloria Steinem
8.Whatever creativity is,it is in part a solution to a problem.-Brian Aldriss
9.If an idea is important enough it is worth laughing at.-British playwright Alan Plater
10.From a fallen tree,all make kindling.-Spanish proverb
11.Man is the main source of his own misery.-Chinese proverb
12.In dreams begins responsibility.-William Butler Yeats
13.The major advances in civilisation are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.-Alfred North Whitehead
14.Regular feet can't be affected by irregular shoes.-Chinese proverb
15.There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me,but this one thing I've found to be true:Writing begets writing.-Dorianne Laux