"Not all those who wander are lost."
J. R. R.' Tolkien

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
Sydney J. Harris

"Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven."
John Milton

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
Winston Churchill

"May fortune favor the foolish."
Captain James T. Kirk

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I stepped from plank to plank, a slow and cautious way, the stars about my head I felt, about my feet the sea. I knew not but the next would be my final inch, this gave me that precarious gate some call experience."
Emily Dickinson

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
M.K. Gandhi

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1899

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where --" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence -- by his own choice."
Ayn Rand