"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine