“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

- Norman Cousins

“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”

- Norman Cousins

“There's time enough, but none to spare.”

- Charles W. Chesnutt

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck”

- Joyce Carol Oates

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

- William Butler Yeats

“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

- Uta Hagen

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

- Emily Dickinson

"We will accept nothing less than full Victory!"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little."

- Sydney Smith

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (Marquis de Sade)