Quotes that resonate with me

Words I keep coming back to — pinned here so I don't lose them.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

— William Shakespeare, Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

— Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics, 1911
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Personal Journal
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

— Clifton Fadiman

Host of "Information, Please!" on NBC Radio from 1938 to 1951,
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

— Unknown

Often credited to C.S. Lewis, but it doesn't actually appear in his writings — a paraphrase of Charles Marshall's Shattering the Glass Slipper.