In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do it big, do it right, do it with style. 

~ Fred Astaire

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. 

~ Abraham Lincoln

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

~ Rudyard Kipling, the Second Jungle Book

Have courage for the great sorrows in life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

~ Victor Hugo

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”

~ Erma Bombeck

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go into harm’s way.

~ John Paul Jones, naval hero of the American Revolutionary War

It is never to late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans)

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.

~ Homer Simpson, regarding his membership in a fraternity; Matt Groening, creator

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

~ Julius Charles Hare

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The bold are always lucky.

~ Danish Proverb

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

 ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Boldly ventured is half won.

~ German Proverb

Never tell me the odds!

~ Han Solo, as played by Harrison Ford in Star Wars; screenplay by George Lucas