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

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
-- Confusius

"Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing."
-- Bonnie Friedman

What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits.
-- Albert Einstein.

"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
-- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
-- Special Olympics Motto
(1st Special Olympics held on July 26, 1969 in Los Angeles)

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it."
-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
-- Henry Ford

"Education makes one rogue cleverer than another."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."
-- Lao Tzu

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
-- Albert Einstein

"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

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
-- Mary Catherine Bateson

"I have great expectations of you, but none higher than you may attain."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Learning isn't about being smart enough, it is about being motivated enough."
-- Marilyn Ferguson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
- Richard M. DeVos

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren't."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
-- Elizabeth Ross

"To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy."
-- Sun Yat-Sen