• To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting. - e. e. cummings
• “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Albert Schweitzer
• "Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is just water"
• "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that we aim too low and we reach it" -- Michaelangelo
• "Sometimes things that seem 'too good to be true' actually turn out to be true. If you’re skeptical by nature, you might miss out on some of them." -- Chris Guillebeau
• I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’

- Toni Morrison

• “If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” --Woody Allen
• "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein
• “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• "Life is like a video game where you accomplish one thing, and then you get the key to the next level." -- Yehuda Berg
• "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw
• “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -- Winston Churchill
• "Taking on hard challenges is what differentiates the pretenders from the contenders.
• “The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one’s main purpose to serve a job here and there.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” — Dudley Field Malone
• "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." — Andrew Carnegie
• "“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poe