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

-- George Eliot (1819-1880)

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live."

-- Unknown

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."

 

~William J. H. Boetcker

'I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.'
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"I like to live like a poor man with lots of money." ~ Picasso

"When you drink the water, you think of where the water comes from."
~ Chinese saying

"All know the way, but few actually walk it."
~ Bodhidharma

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."
~ Jack Layton

"Knowledge is not enough, we must apply."
~ Goethe

"I cannot teach anybody anything.  I can only make them think."
~ Socrates

'They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don't exist below the waist.'

Gary Knell,Sesame Workshop President and CEO regarding Ernie and Bert

"Prizes are nice, but the real competition is with your performance yesterday."
Irwin Greenberg

The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and
believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only
thing that will ever truly be yours.

-- Tiffany Loren Rowe

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on
the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of
continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves
in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.

-- Aldous Huxley

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to
create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and
work.

-- Thomas Dreier

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the
individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It
is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to
resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side
street.

-- Mark Helprin

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your hear -- this you will build your life by, and this you will become."
~ James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

"A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy."
~ Brian Tracy