We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Victor Hugo

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

J. Michael Straczynski

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine. Second phase: they say, Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

Jonas Salk

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Anatole France

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Jussie Smollett

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.

Santosh Kalwar

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Sylvia Plath

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Frank Lloyd Wright