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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

• Martin Luther King Jr.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

• Maya Angelou

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

• Oscar Wilde

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

• General Douglas MacArthur

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

• Mark Twain

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

• Ingrid Bergman

Yes, I believe he was from the little I have read. I have found that basic truths often do not confirm to a particular ideology, not necessarily anyways :-).

I am not prolific at posting, but when I do it is likely to be a quote that I have come across.

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."

• Leon Trotsky

"‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

“And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
— J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” — E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?”
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. "
–Pablo Picasso

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness