• "Those who danced were though quite mad by those who could not hear the music."

-John Milton

• "Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return."

-Leonardo da Vinci

• “Very early in my career I was standing in the wings waiting to audition, and I thought everybody who sang before me had a better voice, looked prettier, had a better figure. I was always a mess. For some reason, it occurred to me that if I could find a way to really learn who I am and put that into my work, there could be no real competition—because there is only one of me.”

-Barbra Streisand

• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

-Mark Twain

• "Far away there 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 May Alcott

• “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this."

-The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis.

• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson