"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

- Louisa M. Alcott

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts...and never hope more than you work.”

- Rita Mae Brown

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

- Gail Sheehy

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

- Pope John XXIII

"We celebrate the past to awaken the future."

- John F. Kennedy

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

- Voltaire

"The Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

- Nadine Gordimer

“What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.”

- Peter Drucker

"Do not let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

"Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.”

- Augustine of Hippo

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

- Thomas Carlyle

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to LIVE by them.”

- John F. Kennedy

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

- Anne Sexton

“I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.”

- Bonnie Raitt

"The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything."

- Mike Nichols

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us."

- George Edward Moore

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day..."

- Bob Feller

“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.”

- Gary Player