"The superfluous, a very necessary thing."

- Voltaire

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

- Jodie Foster

“Success is 99 percent failure.”

- Soichiro Honda

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

- Kurt Vonnegut

“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”

- Albert Camus

“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”

- Robert Musil

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

- Will Rogers

"There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet."

- William Frederick Halsey

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

- Theodore Roosevelt

“I don't exaggerate - I just remember big”

- Chi-Chi Rodríguez

“Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.”

- Arthur Miller

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is no 'what should be', there is only what is.”

- Leonard Alfred Schneider aka Lenny Bruce

"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."

- Ivo Andrić

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

- John W. Gardner

“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”

- Ronald David (R. D.) Laing

“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”

- Shana Alexander

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to run just one more mile."

- Thomas Edison

“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."

- Miguel de Unamuno

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed...For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

- Georges Clemenceau

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

- T. S. Eliot

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

- Christopher Reeve

“I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.”

- Ani DiFranco