“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

- Oprah Winfrey

"The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be."

- Pete Seeger

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

- Lewis Carroll

“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

- John Donne

"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”

- Stendahl

"By aiming for the impossible, you reach the highest level of the possible."

- August Strindberg

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.”

- Danny Kaye

"When you come to the end of all the light you know...it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown..."

- Edward Teller

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

- Cecil Beaton

"I think that one may contribute,ever so slightly, to the beauty of things by making one's own life and environment beautiful, as far as one's power reaches."

- Robinson Jeffers

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

- Joan Baez

"Readiness is the mother of luck."

- Baltasar Gracián

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

- Khalil Gibran

“The determination to win is the better part of winning.”

- Daisaku Ikeda