"If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you."Natalie Goldberg
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying."Michael Jordan, US basketball player (1963 - )
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."Seneca, Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD)
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809 - 1892)
"Man's main task is to give birth to himself."Erich Fromm, US (German-born) psychologist (1900 - 1980)
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered."Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."Albert Ellis
"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."Hans Christian Anderson
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time.""Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future, US cartoonist (1957 - )
"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
Arnold Glasow
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian & anti-Nazi activist (1906 - 1945)
"Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential."Black Elk, Native American
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."Barack Obama