“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

- Bill Bradley

“Winning is a habit.”

- Leo Durocher

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."

 - Ernest Hemingway

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”

- Carlos Santana

“In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.”

- Anita Brookner

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”

- Dorothy Thompson

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

 - Robert Heinlein

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

- Robert Heinlein

“There's no reality except the one contained within us."

- Hermann Hesse

"I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion."

- Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym, George Sand