"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond." -Jeffery Borenstein

"We need more people who specialize in the impossible." -Unknown

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." -Rene Descartes

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." -Unknown

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." -Ralph W. Sockman

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -Stephen Covey

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France

"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." -Unknown

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." -Anonymous

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost

"The journey is the reward." -Tao Saying

"Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up." -Jesse Jackson

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -Unknown

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson

"He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -Nelson Mendela

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." -Chinese Proverb

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." -Maya Angelou

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." -Abigail Van Buren

"Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard

"It's always too early to quit." -Norman Vincent Pearle

"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." -Anonymous

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Confucius

"This above all; to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare

"We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry." -English Proverb

"It takes a great man to be a good listener." -Calvin Coolidge

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." -Unknown

"Live free or die." -New Hampshire

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Gandhi

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." -Richard Bach

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed." -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabic Parable

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -John Powell

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." -Gary Collins

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -Woody Allen

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -Alexander Hamilton

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made." -Jeffery Borenstein

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." -American Indian Proverb

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." -William Arthur Ward

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Jeseph Joubert

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." -E. M. Forster

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Unknown

"He is able who thinks he is able." -Buddha

"If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain." -Dolly Parton

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -Unknown

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." -Unknown

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." -Malcolm Forbes

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." -John Lennon

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond