We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

There once was a sculptor called PhidiasWho had a distaste for the hideous.So he sculpt AphroditeWithout any nightieWhich shocked the ultra-fastidious.

Anon.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

Dr. Seuss

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

J.K. Rowling

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Michel de Montaigne

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

Brigham Young

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Nader

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Anthony Robbins