"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

- Robin Williams

"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."

- Carlos Santana

“We should seek the greatest value of our actions.”

- Stephen Hawking

"I'm running Badwater."

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

- Albert Einstein

"I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."

- Woody Guthrie

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

- William Osler

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

- Marcel Proust

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."

- Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan

A League of Their Own (1992)

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish”

- Jean de La Fontaine

"The destiny of man is in his own soul."

- Herodotus

"One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet."

- Jean Cocteau

"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached."

- Franz Kafka

“Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”

- Hermann Hesse

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

- John Upkike

“Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.”

- Swami Tejomayananda

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

- Hellen Keller

“Life is not what it's supposed to be. Its what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”

- Virginia Satir

"Do whatever you do intensely."

- Robert Henri

"Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them."

- Richard Bach

"Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose”

- Jean-Paul Sartre