“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” -René Decartes

- René  Descartes

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

-Victor Frankl

"Revolution begins with the self, in the self..."

- Toni Cade Bambara

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.”

- Stephen Sondheim

“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”

- David Livingstone

"Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being...Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is IT."

- William Gibson when asked 'What will save humanity?'

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”

- Andrew Jackson quoting Napoleon Bonaparte

“'Tisn't life that matters. 'Tis the courage you bring to it!”

- Hugh Walpole

"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."

- Jack Kerouac

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

- Douglas Adams

"The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."

- Carl Jung

“How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.”

- Franco Harris

”The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.”

- Michelangelo

“Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.”

- Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”

- Channing Pollock

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee