If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius