“As the body needs physical exercise in order to remain in fit condition, man’s spirit also requires the spiritual exercise derived when he confronts his problems and combats life’s vicissitudes. ”

- William Sahakian and Mabel Lewis Sahakian, describing the philosophy of Epictetus

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."

- Robert Frost

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain himself. "

~ Epicurus

“Don’t just survive what’s coming at you.  Shape it.”
Gen. Romeo Dallaire

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it."

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

~ Buckminster Fuller