"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible."

- Mikhail Bakunin

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

- G.K. Chesterton

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

- Rachel Louise Carson

“Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.”

- M. Scott Peck

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

- Plato

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”

- Honoré de Balzac

“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.”

- Katherine Anne Porter

“I dare you to think bigger, to act bigger, and to be bigger. I dare you to think creatively. I dare you to lead and inspire others. I dare you to build character. I dare you to share. And I promise you a richer and more exciting life if you do!”

- William Henry Danforth

"Always do whatever's next."

- George Carlin

"I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.”

- Harry S. Truman

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor."

- Henry David Thoreau

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

- James Allen

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

- Joseph Addison