“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”  –Eleanor Roosevelt

“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.”  –Albert Szent-Györgyi

“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”  –Grace Hopper

“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”  –Muhammad Ali

“Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”  Oscar Wilde

“She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”  –Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”  –Samuel Johnson

“Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.”  –Jacques Prévert

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”  –Epictetus

“Barn burned down.  Now I can see the moon.”  –Basho

“Those who danced were th0ught to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”  –Angela Monet

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness.  It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”  –Alanis Morissette

“If you really want something in this life you have to work for it.  Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery numbers.”  –Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

“Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.”  –H. H. Williams

“When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large.  When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.”  –Albert F. Geoffrey

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”  –Alfred D’Souza

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”  –Rumi

And last but not least:

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”  –Ray Bradbury